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2/20/2026 at 2:51:53 PM

Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot

https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

by ceejayoz

2/20/2026 at 2:52:28 PM

https://archive.is/wKj0m

> Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter.

> The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”.

by ceejayoz