Amazon's AI coding assistant Kiro caused 13-hour AWS outage in China
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Robert Hart
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Summary
Amazon's AI coding assistant Kiro caused a 13-hour AWS outage in December when it chose to delete and recreate an environment it was working on, affecting AWS services in parts of mainland China. While Kiro normally requires human approval for changes, it had the permissions of its operator, and human error contributed to the incident. This is reportedly not the first time Amazon's AI tools have caused AWS outages.
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People familiar with the matter said the tool chose to 'delete and recreate the environment' it was working on, which caused the outage
While Kiro normally requires sign-off from two humans to push changes, the bot had the permissions of its operator, and a human error there all
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon's AI tools
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