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Kiro AI Coding Tool Was Reportedly Implicated in 13-Hour AWS Cost Explorer Outage in Mainland China
Sometime in mid-December 2025, AWS Cost Explorer in one mainland China region reportedly experienced an approximately 13-hour interruption after Amazon engineers allegedly allowed Kiro, an internal AI coding tool, to make changes and it reportedly deleted and recreated part of the working environment. Amazon reportedly disputed that account, saying the interruption was an extremely limited event caused by user error and misconfigured access controls, not AI.
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2025-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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