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February 20, 2026
Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent's mistake
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TL;DR
- Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred due to actions by Amazon's AI coding tools.
- An outage in December was caused by the AI agent Kiro, which deleted and recreated an environment.
- A human error allowed Kiro more access than expected, bypassing the usual two-human sign-off requirement.
- Another incident was linked to Amazon's AI chatbot Q Developer.
- Amazon attributes the outages to human error, stating the same issues could occur with any developer tool.
- The company has implemented safeguards and staff training following the incidents.
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