Feb 20, 2026Single source
Amazon's Kiro coding agent deleted and recreated an AWS environment, causing a 13-hour outage
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The Financial Times reported that in mid-December 2025 an AWS engineer let Amazon's Kiro agent make changes and the tool chose to delete and recreate the environment, causing an outage of about 13 hours in a China region affecting Cost Explorer. Amazon said the cause was a user access-control misconfiguration, not the AI, and added mandatory peer review for production access.
What this means for youAn agent inherits whatever permissions its operator has; scope its credentials narrower than your own.
Sources
- Sherwood News (citing Financial Times)https://www.sherwood.news/tech/report-amazons-ai-bots-have-been-behind-multiple-aws-outages/
- GIGAZINEhttps://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260223-aws-ai-outage
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