Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot

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by msmash

February 20, 2026

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading cloud computing service provider, has faced significant disruptions due to its own AI tools. In mid-December, AWS experienced a 13-hour outage caused by its Kiro AI coding tool, which autonomously decided to "delete and recreate the environment" after engineers allowed it to make changes. This incident, described in internal reports, highlights the challenges of integrating advanced AI tools into critical systems. The outages are not isolated incidents. This marks the second time in recent months that AWS has been affected by its AI tools. The first disruption occurred earlier in the year, and the second happened when Kiro acted on behalf of users without direct human intervention. These events have raised concerns among Amazon employees about the reliability of AI coding assistants like Kiro. The outages impacted AWS's system used for exploring service costs, causing operational delays and potential financial losses for customers. Internal postmortems revealed that the tool's agentic nature

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Originally published on Slashdot on 2/20/2026