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AWS reportedly suffered a 13-hour outage in late 2025 affecting its Cost Explorer service in one China region after engineers allowed Amazon's agentic coding tool Kiro to make changes autonomously. Kiro allegedly chose to 'delete and recreate the environment,' triggering the disruption. Amazon disputes that Kiro was at fault, attributing the incident to user error — specifically an engineer using a role with broader permissions than intended and misconfigured access controls. The company says Kiro requests authorization before acting by default, and has since added mandatory peer review for production access. The incident highlights broader risks of granting AI agents unsupervised access to production systems.

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard