Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly suffered from a couple of outages due to misbehaving AI agents. According to the Financial Times, the most recent interruption happened in December last year, when its Koiro AI coding tool decided to erase the environment it was working on, resulting in a 13-hour disruption.
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“We’ve already seen at least two production outages,” one senior AWS employee told the publication. “The engineers let the AI resolve an issue without intervention. The outages were small but entirely foreseeable.”
On the other hand, the company reported that the incidents were relatively minor, with the December disruption only affecting a single service in parts of mainland China, and the other one having no effect on customer-facing services. Amazon said to the Financial Times that the involvement of AI tools in these incidents was just a coincidence, and that the same issue would…
