Turns out Amazon had two outages in December caused by their IaaS management slop generator:
Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws
> Reported issues at Amazon Web Services raise questions about firm’s use of artificial intelligence as it cuts staff
Sounds like things are not going well over at AWS.
> Michał Woźniak, a cybersecurity expert, said it would be nearly impossible for Amazon to completely prevent internal AI agents from making errors in future, because AI systems make unexpected choices and are extremely complex.
> “Amazon never misses a chance to point to “AI” when it is useful to them – like in the case of mass layoffs that are being framed as replacing engineers with AI. But when a slop generator is involved in an outage, suddenly that’s just ‘coincidence’,” he added.
Henlo.
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