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March 10, 2026
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
TL;DR
- Amazon's e-commerce and cloud divisions are experiencing a trend of outages.
- The use of AI coding tools, particularly "Gen-AI assisted changes," is being investigated as a contributing factor.
- Senior engineers will now be required to sign off on all AI-assisted code changes.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had at least two incidents related to AI coding assistants.
- The company claims the review of website availability is a normal business practice for continuous improvement.
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