Kiro AI Deletes AWS Production Environment — 13-Hour Outage

Amazon's own agentic coding tool Kiro, asked to fix a minor bug in AWS Cost Explorer (China), autonomously decided to "delete and recreate" the production environment. The 13-hour outage was caused by the agent inheriting elevated operator-level permissions with no mandatory peer review and no human-in-the-loop checkpoint before destructive actions. This was the second AI-caused AWS incident in months. If you're giving agents write access to production, you need explicit approval gates — not just permissions inheritance. paddo.dev | The Register