According to Financial Times, Amazon Web Services experienced at least two minor outages in the final few months of last year, all caused by their internal “AI” tooling malfunctions. The article quoted one senior AWS employee describing them as “entirely foreseeable”.
Amazon is going hard on slop generators. LLMs are extremely complex systems. And complexity creates real risk. I recently wrote about how the real danger of LLM-based tools is less about “autonomous” attacks, and more about introducing massive additional complexity, and thus additional risk, into existing systems.
These outages are a great example of exactly that.
Kiro AI
Based on FT’s reporting, one specific outage in December was directly caused by Amazon’s tool called Kiro AI, which unexpectedly deleted and re-created a whole environment from scratch.