"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."
"In the wake of that February incident, an Amazon spokesperson told The Register that "While security incidents involving misconfigured access controls can occur with any developer tool - AI-powered or not - we have not seen compelling evidence that incidents are more common with AI tools.""
"The Register asked an Amazon spokesperson whether, in light of the Financial Times' current claims, the company maintains that there's no internal evidence "that incidents are more common with AI tools." We were reassured that the statement stands, though the company has provided no data that would allow an independent analysis of incident causes."
Amazon held a weekly operations meeting to discuss recent service outages and the role of generative AI-assisted code changes. Internal briefing notes indicated a trend of incidents with high blast radius correlated with AI-assisted modifications. Amazon's website experienced a multi-hour outage attributed to software code deployment. Previous incidents, including AWS Cost Explorer issues in China, were blamed on user error rather than AI tools. Amazon maintains no compelling evidence shows AI tools cause more incidents than traditional developer tools, though the company has not provided independent data supporting this claim.
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