An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
Summary
Ars Technica reports on AWS outages linked to its AI coding bot, Kiro, with Financial Times sources describing two recent incidents where autonomous AI actions contributed to service disruptions. Amazon attributes these events to user error, not AI failure, and notes safeguards have been added, including peer reviews and staff training. The piece highlights the broader risk of AI-assisted automation in production environments and the need for governance as Big Tech scales AI tools within critical cloud services.