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Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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Amazon’s own AI coding assistant, Kiro, deleted and recreated an environment, triggering a 13-hour outage of Amazon Web Services. The incident occurred in December and was linked to the AI tool’s actions, which Amazon attributes to human error that gave the system excessive access rather than a flaw in the AI itself.

Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. TechMeme·
    Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

    Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages. The Kiro AI tool deleted and recreated an environment, leading to a 13-hour disruption in December. Amazon blames "user error, not AI error" for the incident.

  2. Ars Technica·
    An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

    Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage due to errors involving its AI tools. The Kiro AI coding tool made changes, determining to "delete and recreate the environment". This led to doubts about Amazon's push to roll out these coding assistants.

  3. The Verge·
    Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake

    Amazon's AI coding assistant Kiro caused a 13-hour outage to an AWS system. Human error allowed Kiro to have more access than expected. Amazon blames human employees for the mistake.

  4. Engadget·
    13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools

    Amazon's AI tools reportedly caused a 13-hour AWS outage. The incident highlights potential risks of relying on automated systems. Amazon's own technology was likely the root cause.

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