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

Date
July 22, 2026
Category
LLM
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make c ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7556)

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