AI code wreaked havoc with Amazon outage, and now the company is making tight rules

As reported by the Financial Times, Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after engineers let its Kiro AI coding tool update code without requiring any oversight. Kiro decided the best solution was to “delete and recreate the environment.” That’s one way to fix a problem, I suppose.

Amazon wants you to shop for groceries online as it shutters retail stores

The move marks a quiet but decisive end to Amazon’s long experiment with running its own standalone grocery chains. Amazon Fresh supermarkets and Amazon Go convenience stores were meant to showcase cashierless tech and a modern retail experience. However, Amazon now admits the model never quite worked the way it hoped.

Don’t let a messy tech stack slow your growth in 2026

January is the season for audits. We audit our finances, our habits, and our wardrobes. But for anyone running a revenue team, the most critical audit you can perform right now is on your software stack.