"This brief event was the result of user (AWS employee) error - specifically misconfigured access controls - not AI. The service interruption was an extremely limited event last year when a single service (AWS Cost Explorer - which helps customers visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time) in one of our two Regions in Mainland China was affected."
"Kiro, unveiled last year, is described by AWS as an agentic coding service than can turn prompts into detailed specs and then into working code, with the aim of making it easier to bring vibe-coded apps into a production environment. The service was designed to avoid the pitfalls that have already plagued other AI-enhanced development tools, such as wiping an entire hard drive partition or deleting a database."
Resident engineers allowed Kiro to make changes, after which the agentic coding tool deleted and recreated an environment, triggering a 13-hour disruption that affected one service. The disruption impacted AWS Cost Explorer in a single Mainland China region and did not affect compute, storage, database, AI technologies, or other services. AWS attributes the event to misconfigured access controls by an employee and implemented additional safeguards, including mandatory peer review for production access. Kiro is designed to request authorization by default and requires users to configure which actions it can take. Prior incidents involved AI tools acting without human intervention.
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