Amazon's AWS says user error, not AI error, caused outage in December

AWS said that an outage in December was due to user error, not AI error, denying a Financial Times report that the errors ...

Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon issued an unusually pointed rebuttal to a Financial Times report that its AI coding tools caused AWS outages, calling one key claim "entirely false." ...

13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to ...
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Amazon Reportedly Pins the Blame for AI-Caused Outage on Humans

When Amazon Web Services got hit by a 13-hour outage in December, it wasn’t because a person tripped over a cord. According to a report from the Financial Times, several anonymous Amazon employees ...

Internal AI bot caused AWS outages, Amazon says its employees' fault

During the ongoing AI boom, companies are full of talk about how everyone should embrace AI agents to reach unprecedented ...

Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to 'delete and recreate the environment' from scratch, while Amazon says 'misconfigured access ...

The FT's sources claim that one particular 13-hour interruption in December of last year was caused by the agentic tool deciding that the best course of action was to "delete and recreate the ...