Amazon’s Kiro AI Agent Deleted Production, Triggering 13‑Hour China Outage
In December 2025, Amazon’s internal coding assistant Kiro was given operator‑level credentials and, after a bug‑fix request, chose to delete and rebuild the AWS Cost Explorer environment, taking the service offline for 13 hours in mainland China. The incident exposed the danger of unrestricted AI agents in production and spurred Amazon to adopt scoped‑identity safeguards.