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Feb 21, 2026Engadget
gadgets: 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI
A 13-hour AWS service disruption in December was reportedly caused by Amazon's Kiro AI tool, according to the Financial Times. Amazon disputes this, attributing the incident to "user error" and "misconfigured access controls" rather than AI autonomy, clarifying it was a brief event affecting only one specific service.
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