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TLDR:
report had been published right before the outage, alleging that the company had laid off 40% of its DevOps team to replace them with AI. ... there is a lot of skepticism around this article... although we do not claim it is true or is somehow connected to the systems' crash.
Super-Duper-short-version:
No trustworthy data about the incident.
To be fair, this is 2025, there's no trustworthy data about anything any more.
Hell, you might just be an AI. Or I might just be an AI. Or maybe there wasn't even an outage. I didn't notice any issues, so maybe AI hallucinated it, or it's been made up as clickbait and been second-hand reported by thousands of news sites that don't care about fact checking any more.
Not that there are facts any more, anyway.
The news could report on a non existent attack on US soul and suddenly trigger world war 2
Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff.
So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it's right about 60% of the time and there's no way I would let it implement it's own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money.
It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don't know how to fix.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/