Recent AWS issues blamed on AI tools – at least two incidents affected some Amazon services

Image credit: Kiro / AWS. Article by Craig Hale. TechRadar – updated February 20, 2026.

At least two recent AWS downtime issues were caused by incidents involving user error with Amazon‘s own AI coding tools. A report by the Financial Times (FT) notes a 13-hour interruption in mid-December 2025 was the result of a user error with Amazon’s Kiro AI coding agent. Although AWS had published an internal report on the cause of the issue, this was never shared publicly, but the FT has obtained the information from four unnamed people familiar with the matter. […]

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