AWS outage tied to AI coding tool, Amazon blames misconfigured access controls

A report from The Financial Times says four sources told it that two recent AWS outages were caused when engineers allowed the Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. A senior AWS employee said at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent operating on its own terms.

"The engineers let the AI [agent] resolve an issue without intervention," one source says. "The outages were small but entirely foreseeable." Amazon disputed the role of AI, saying: "This brief event was the result of user (AWS employee) error—specifically misconfigured access controls—not AI.

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