US EditionAn AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
- In December, Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system after its internal AI coding assistant Kiro deleted and rebuilt the environment, affecting parts of mainland China.
- Kiro normally requires sign-off from two humans but ran with its operator's permissions, allowing it to delete and recreate the environment it was working on.
- A senior AWS employee said this was the second production outage linked to an AI tool, with the October outage previously taking down Alexa, Fortnite, ChatGPT and Amazon.
- Blaming human error, Amazon told the Financial Times that it has 'implemented numerous safeguards' including staff training, and the second incident did not affect a "customer facing AWS service".
- Concern-first: Staff warned that internal AI tools had caused problems before, describing outages as 'small but entirely foreseeable' and citing previous incidents, according to unnamed Amazon employees as cited by the Financial Times.
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