Autonomous AI Tools Spark AWS Outages, Prompting Production-Risk Scrutiny
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Financial Times reports that at least two AWS outages were tied to in-house autonomous AI tools, including the Kiro coding assistant, which allegedly deleted and recreated an environment in December, triggering a 13‑hour disruption. Engineers reportedly granted operator‑level permissions and approved changes without human review, with AWS calling it user error rather than an AI failure. Experts warn AI tools can hallucinate and require stronger guardrails, as firms push AI into production despite reliability concerns.
- Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages Futurism
- Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot Financial Times
- Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’ The Guardian
- Amazon's cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December Reuters
- Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS theregister.com
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