Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’
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Source: The Guardian TechnologyFebruary 20, 2026
Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS, Amazon's cloud computing platform) experienced at least two outages in the past year, including a 13-hour outage in December caused by an AI agent (a software system that makes decisions and takes actions without human input) that autonomously deleted and recreated part of its system environment. These incidents raise concerns about the risks of relying heavily on AI tools, especially as Amazon reduces its human workforce.
Classification
Attack SophisticationModerate
Impact (CIA+S)
availabilitysafety
AI Component TargetedAgent
Affected Vendors
Amazon
Related Issues
Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws
First tracked: February 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%