344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It
Welcome to episode 344 of The Cloud Pod, where Jonathan and Matt are holding down the fort to discuss the 13-hour AWS outage caused by the infamous Kiro AI coding bot. After an engineer granted it broad permissions, this agent went rogue, autonomously deciding the best fix for a minor issue was to delete and recreate the entire production environment. We dive into what this incident means for mandatory human-in-the-loop approval gates and why permission scoping is now a non-optional control for anyone running agentic AI in the cloud.