‘The engineers let the AI resolve an issue without intervention’: Reports say recent AWS outages were caused by an AI coding tool running amok, while Amazon says user permissions were at fault

A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight.

According to a senior AWS employee, at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent operating on its own terms. “The engineers let the AI [agent] resolve an issue without intervention,” one source claims. “The outages were small but entirely foreseeable.”