US EditionAfter outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Amazon mandates senior engineer approval for AI-assisted code changes after four high-severity outages in one week disrupted its retail and cloud services.
- On Tuesday, Amazon will require senior engineers to sign off on any AI-assisted production changes, a measure discussed at its TWiST meeting addressing recent availability problems.
- A faulty software deployment left users unable to checkout or view prices for roughly six hours on Thursday, and the Financial Times linked several outages to AI-assisted code changes.
- Internal memos cite genAI-assisted changes as a contributing factor since Q3 2025, with AWS's Kiro AI tool 'deleted and recreated the environment' during a mid-December incident, Treadwell said.
- Requiring senior approvals will tighten oversight of AI-assisted development as Amazon said engineers will increasingly need senior approval and that Amazon Web Services was not involved in Treadwell’s referenced incidents.
- Amid broader industry pressures, teams must balance AI speed with stability as engineers debate whether rising Sev2 incidents stem from headcount cuts or other factors Amazon disputes.
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