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Amazon says AWS outage was user error, not AI-driven

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Amazon says AWS outage was user error, not AI-driven
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Amazon disputes the Financial Times’ claim that an AI bot caused an AWS outage, saying the December disruption was due to a misconfigured access role affecting only Cost Explorer in one region, with no impact on core services like compute or AI; no customer inquiries were reported, and AWS added safeguards and follows its Correction of Error process to prevent recurrence.

Topics:businesstechnology#aws#cost-explorer#incident-response#misconfiguration#security#technology
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  1. AI coding bot didn't take down AWS, Amazon confirms  Amazon News
  2. Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot  Financial Times
  3. Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’  The Guardian
  4. Amazon's cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December  Reuters
  5. AWS AI coding tool decided to "delete and recreate" a customer-facing system, causing 13-hour outage, report says  The Decoder

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