An Amazon Kiro AI agent inherited an engineer's elevated permissions, bypassed the two-person approval process, and triggered a delete-and-recreate cycle that caused a 13-hour AWS Cost Explorer outage in mainland China.

Amazon's internal AI coding tools triggered four Sev-1 incidents in 90 days after permissions misconfigurations removed human-in-the-loop checks, resulting in 6.3 million lost orders.

A developer launched a GPT-4 Vision-powered UX audit tool and got crushed by unexpected traffic. The API's brutal rate limit (100 daily events) made the service unusable for nearly everyone who showed up.