Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash

[CentralMass]

https://80.lv/articles/amazon-allegedly-replaced-40-of-aws-devops-workers-with-ai-days-before-crash

"So you've likely heard about Amazon Web Services (AWS) going offline a couple of days ago, crashing thousands of platforms from all kinds of industries, including Snapchat, the McDonald's app, Roblox, and Fortnite, because of an "operational issue."
The servers are back up, but it was discovered that an interesting 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. The author says that there was "an email memo, which was briefly posted on the internal wiki before being taken down, blamed the cuts on strategic automation initiatives."

It reports that the AI detects and fixes IAM permission errors instantly, rebuilds broken VPC or subnet configs, and rolls back failed Lambda deployments without human input.

Now, there is a lot of skepticism around this article, and you should take it with a huge grain of salt, but the timing is curious, although we do not claim it is true or is somehow connected to the systems' crash.

The latest official layoff news we have is Amazon firing hundreds of people at AWS in July.

Whether it's AI that broke the servers or not, the fact that so many companies suffered from it must mean we need more providers of cloud services. Last year, the same happened because of a Windows glitch, which caused TV channels, airlines, banks, and many other industries to freeze for a while."

[JT45242]

1. Not sure about AI, but layoffs and staffing cuts are consistent with messages to stock holders

Amazon has said before that it was going leaner and reducing the workforce.

[DemUrLight]

2. That's what they get!

Bad things will continue to happen to these companies, especially when they dointentionally fckd up things to each other.

[Coventina]

3. hahahahahahahahaha!!! Suck it, Bezos!!

So glad I've removed him from my life.

(I'm sure i'm involuntarily using AWS to an extent, but i refuse to outright support anything Bezos related)

[Raven123]

4. Yep. Too few providers of cloud service. No surprise at the result

I know someone who spent a good part of the day dealing with the consequences. Would like to know how many businesses were affected. That’s a lot of money lost.

[Hugin]

6. It didn't have any direct impact on my daily tech doings...

Which I had much of early in this week. I don’t know if that means I am a maverick or a luddite.
Small footprint, I suppose.

I did have to go bail out my dimpled darlings with some of that real world money stuff or they were looking at having some real world dishpan hands.

[Champp]

5. GOP billionaire Bezos bigly brain at work