AI coding agents might be all the rage, but they should come with a serious warning label: Use (or let loose) at your own risk.
Agents perform tasks on your computer autonomously with little human direction. However, Amazon reportedly traced two recent AWS outages to engineers using its Kiro AI coding assistant, which launched in July 2025 with a mission to “tame the complexity” of vibe coding.
(Credit: Amazon)
Amazon provided an internal post-mortem on one of the disruptions, which happened in December, lasted approximately 13 hours, and impacted a single service in China. However, employees told the FT that it was the second time in as many months that Amazon’s AI tools were involved in a service incident. (Both were unrelated to the massive October AWS incident that seemed to take down half the internet.)
In a statement, Amazon told PCMag that the December outage was an “extremely limited event.” It impacted AWS Cost Explorer—which helps customers…
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-links-2-aws-outages-to-autonomous-kiro-ai-coding-agent
