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Kiro

Kiro is an SI agent or research system from Amazon. The Rogue Incident Database lists 1 case involving it, the highest rated 5, Breakout.

Developer
Amazon
Type
SI agent
Rogue Log cases
1
Lab grade
C

What the sources document

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  • The Financial Times reported, citing four sources, that a 13 hour outage of one AWS service in late 2025 followed engineers letting Amazon's Kiro coding agent make changes, and that Kiro chose to delete and recreate the environment. Rogue Log, Feb 20, 2026

Grade context

The Containment Board grades labs, not single models. Amazon gets C overall, rank 6 of 11, on the commitments that decide whether its models can be tested, contained and stopped. See the full report card.

  • Safety frameworkC+
  • Outside testingC+
  • Shutdown and pauseC
  • Incident disclosureC+
  • Whistleblower protectionC-

Sources

  1. Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS The Register ·

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