Amazon is making even senior engineers get code signed off following multiple recent outages

• Amazon and AWS have had a few high-profile incidents recently, caused by dodgy code
• Mandatory meeting responded to "Gen-AI assisted changes"
• Senior human oversight now required for code changes

Amazon has reportedly called engineers into a mandatory 'deep dive' meeting to investigate recent outages and reliability issues, and it seems the fix is to humanize AI-generated content.

For example, a six-hour outage on Amazon's main ecommerce site in March 2026 prevented users from being able to complete transactions, view account details and interact with certain product pages – and it was reportedly caused by an erroneous code deployment.

The meeting stemmed from a "trend of incidents" with a "high blast radius," the Financial Times reports, suggesting "Gen-AI assisted changes" have been to blame for a number of recent incidents.

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