Amazon / AWS

Amazon's internal AI coding tool "Kiro" caused at least two AWS outages including one lasting 13 hours. The agents ran with the same permissions as the human engineers using them. No secondary approval was required. The agents restarted systems, modified configurations, and broke production without understanding the consequences. Amazon called it "user access control." Security experts disagreed: "AI agents cannot understand the broader ramifications of restarting a system or deleting a database."