Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon Web Services issued an unusual public rebuttal to a Financial Times report about outages. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop)

Seven hours at the top of Techmeme was apparently too much for Amazon to take.

The tech giant’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, issued an unusually pointed public rebuttal Friday afternoon to a widely cited Financial Times report asserting that Amazon’s own AI coding tools have caused at least two AWS outages in recent months. 

The story was picked up by numerous media outlets, and the widely followed tech news aggregator, as an example of the risks of deploying agentic AI tools, and the underlying question of who — or what —  is responsible when something goes wrong.

In a blog post titled “Correcting the Financial Times report about AWS, Kiro, and AI,”…

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