[Reuters] Amazon's cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December

News for Ecomm Sellers
1

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-cloud-unit-hit-by-least-two-outages-involving-ai-tools-ft-says-2026-02-20/

2

So this just after they cut positions in AWS cause AI was replacing humans.

Also, lets face it, we all know how well any Amazon AI/Bots work.

3

That was my first reaction too.
“Quick, fire some more humans, that will solve everything!”

4

The report said AWS suffered a 13-hour interruption to a system used by customers when engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to carry out certain changes.

The agentic tool, which is capable of taking autonomous actions for users, decided to “delete and recreate the environment”, according to the FT report.

:woman_facepalming: the fact that the AI tool had the ability to just delete the environment

5

Allowed? Or did the engineers have to wrest control back from their AI? :thinking:

6
7

sssuuuurrreeeee

8

AI depicting human sweeping it under the rug …

image
image214Ă—148 35.3 KB

... disclaimer ...

… there are no known human depictions of AI sweeping it under the rug as all attempts have been auto corrected by AI