The logos of World Economic Forum (WEF) and Amazon are displayed during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026.
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Amazon convened an internal meeting on Tuesday to address a string of recent outages, including one tied to AI-assisted coding errors, CNBC has confirmed.
Dave Treadwell, a top executive overseeing the technical foundations of Amazon’s website, told employees that the company’s “This Week in Stores Tech,” or TWiST, meeting would be a “deep dive” on “some of the issues that got us here.” The meeting was scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. ET.
“Folks – as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Treadwell, senior vice president of eCommerce Foundation, wrote in a note to employees viewed by CNBC. He added that he was shifting the focus of the meeting “given the incidence of Sev 1s,” referring to high-severity incidents that cause outages or…
