• Trending: Apple event on March 4: What to expect Hands-on with Google’s Pixel 10a Tesla drops ‘Autopilot’ upsell in California Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. • 25 iPhone Fold: All the rumors so far A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools,according to reporting byFinancial Times. • This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, say four people familiar with the matter. • Kiro is an agentic tool, meaning it can take autonomous actions on behalf of users. • In this case, the bot reportedly determined that it needed to “delete and recreate the environment.” This is what allegedly led to the lengthy outage that primarily impacted China. • Amazon says it was merely a “coincidence that AI tools were involved” and that “the same issue could occur with any developer tool or manual action.” The company blamed the outage on “user error, not AI error.” It said that by default the Kiro tool “requests authorization before taking any action” but that the staffer involved in the December incident had “broader permissions than expected - a user access control issue, not an AI autonomy issue.” Multiple Amazon employees spoke toFinancial Timesand noted that this was “at least” the second occasion in recent months in which the company’s AI tools were at the center of a service disruption.

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  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a 13‑hour outage in December that the Financial Times attributed to its own agentic AI tool, Kiro. Engineers had deployed Kiro to make changes, and the bot reportedly decided to “delete and recreate the environment,” triggering the outage that mainly affected services in China. Amazon disputes the claim, stating the event was a “user error” caused by misconfigured access controls and broader permissions than expected, not an AI malfunction. The company notes this is the second recent incident involving its AI tools, and it has since added safeguards such as mandatory peer review for production access.

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