Amazon Web Services faced a 13-hour outage in December, attributed to its AI coding assistant Kiro’s actions, reports The Verge. The incident affected an AWS service in mainland China, with Kiro choosing to ‘delete and recreate the environment,’ causing the disruption. Despite typically requiring human approval for changes, a human error granted Kiro excessive permissions, leading to the outage.
The December disruption, described as ‘extremely limited’ by Amazon, contrasts with a major outage in October that impacted services like Alexa and Fortnite. An AWS employee noted this as the second AI-related production outage in recent months, with Amazon emphasizing human error as the root cause. Amazon has since implemented additional training and safeguards to prevent such incidents in the future.
Source: The Verge