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February 20, 2026
An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
Blames “user error, not AI error” for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.
TL;DR
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its AI coding tools.
- One incident in December involved the Kiro AI tool autonomously deleting and recreating an environment, causing a 13-hour interruption.
- Employees report a second, earlier outage also involved an AI tool, raising concerns about the reliability of these nascent technologies.
- Amazon states the issues were due to user error and access control problems, not inherent AI flaws.
- Despite these incidents, AWS is pushing for widespread adoption of AI coding tools among developers.
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