Amazon holds engineer meeting over AI-related service outage — The Financial Times (UK) reports

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Amazon recently held a meeting to discuss multiple service outages related to artificial intelligence, noting that generative AI applications have yet to establish best practices. These issues have a wide impact, causing website and shopping app outages lasting up to 6 hours.

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2026-03-10 05:54:58

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Investing.com – According to the UK Financial Times, Amazon held a large meeting with engineers on Tuesday to study a series of service outages related to artificial intelligence.

A meeting briefing seen by the Financial Times indicated that the online retailer reported a “trend of incidents” in recent months characterized by “wide impact” and “generative AI-assisted changes.”

The briefing listed “the use of new generative AI that has not yet fully established best practices and safeguards” as one of the contributing factors.

Amazon’s website and shopping app experienced nearly 6 hours of downtime this month, which the company attributed to a faulty “software code deployment.” The outage prevented customers from completing transactions or accessing features like viewing account details and product prices.

Amazon Web Services has experienced at least two incidents related to the use of AI coding assistants, which the company has been promoting among employees.

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