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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 2 points 2 days ago

Worth noting that despite the headline this does not have anything to do with the huge outage in the end of 2025.

The company said the incident in December was an “extremely limited event” affecting only a single service in parts of mainland China. Amazon added that the second incident did not have an impact on a “customer facing AWS service.”

Neither disruption was anywhere near as severe as a 15-hour AWS outage in October 2025 that forced multiple customers’ apps and websites offline—including OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

I would also have felt some level of schadenfreude if it turned out that any of the really big incidents in the end of 2025 was a result of managements aggressive pushes for AI coding. Perhaps that would cool off the heads of executives a bit if there were very real examples pf shit properly hitting the fan…