Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.

According to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the Financial Times, Amazon said that there had been a "trend of incidents" in recent months, characterized by a "high blast radius" and "Gen-AI assisted changes."

The implication is that AI-assisted coding has made the company's infrastructure more fragile. And that's something Amazon disputes.

Last Thursday, Amazon's website and ecommerce services were down for several hours for some users, an issue the company attributed to "a software code deployment." AWS was not involved, we're told.

The Financial Times report follows coverage last month that AWS's Kiro AI tool made system changes that affected the availability of AWS Cost ...