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How an AI Bot Named Kiro Took Down AWS Cost Explorer

Date
July 22, 2026
Category
Agent
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

In December 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour outage that started with an AI bot making a decision. Not a human engineer. An AI coding tool called Kiro decided the best way to fix a problem was to delete and recreate a product ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7563)

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