PieFedAmazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash
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GammaFrom what I understand, this report and the layoffs were in July. It makes for a catchier headline to say it was days before.
Reminds me of the joke from king of the hill
Hank: for only pennies more you can get this
Customer: how many Pennie’s
Hank: several hundred…
Yeah it happened just days before… 100s of days but just days.
AussiemandeusStill it’s like machinery, I go through it with customers,
They get you in because they break down a lot then you spend time getting jt running and sell them on the idea of preventative maintenance, they’re happy I’m happy I go in grease maintain inspect and service regularly.
Then someone says hey why are we paying this company to look at our machines so often? They never breakdown we don’t need this.
So they stop calling don’t renew contracts etc.
2 years later they ring again saying they’re broken down and I just say sure I can fix it but it’s going to cost more this time.
You need to maintain even when it’s fine
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I get it but fuck these guys.
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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/
This report is a blog linking to a blog.
https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa
Thanks I didnt see that. Ill add it to the description.
What a great idea to test this on paying customers’ live production websites.
I’d believe them if they said they tested small- scale locally. Even good software/designs can implode when they get scaled up, and I doubt this was good design or software.
More likely their hamfisted return to work layoff scheme has caused them to bleed experienced staff. The only people left are less experienced and give less of a shit. It took them over an hour to realize the database of their DNS system was the issue.
I asked a buddy that works at Amazon about the outage and he pointed me to this article.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
I know quite a few people who currently work there and pretty much all of them are trying to leave.
This is a really good article. Thanks for posting it.
I wonder how long AI will function when it starts feeding on AI generated junk data. Like a photocopy of a photocopy.
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So you’re saying the 80.lv “team” are AI generated? Wouldn’t that be ironic…AI making shit up about AI.
“the only winning move is not to play”
I know there’s doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when “AI” takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the “AI” machine go?
Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out…. Allegedly.
A handful of senior engineers or developers. And then we’re even more ducked when they retire or die, because the no-one is hiring junior engineers or developers
The good ones leave as things turn to shit, or we’re laid off because their salaries were too high.
Amazon has laid off or scared off the vast majority of their most experienced people. Those that weren’t laid off quit over stupidity like “RTO”. I don’t doubt that their underpaid junior staff and Kool-Aid drinking upper management decided that AI is a great way to replace all the lost knowledge and expertise. As with the downfall of civilization, this will get much worse before it gets better. It will be interesting to see how huge companies react to another companies enshittification actively damaging their business and reputation.
amazon also is more burned-out heavy than other tech companies aside from the tesla, i saw all those reviews and the peoples post on reddit.
Absolute fucking MORONS have taken over the world, and are wrecking it.
IF we ever get our country back, we have to go forward with a national strategy that we no longer have to be polite to treasonous MAGA scumbags. Everytime they open their mouths they should be shouted down with screams to shut the fuck up.
We should never have to tolerate the opinions of stupid, violent traitors.
They’ll all pretend they were never MAGA, why are you still going on about Trump, we’re trying to look forward, etc.
This is exactly how the GOP disowned the Bush II Administration with the Tea Party.
And that’s when we have to scream the loudest, and absolutely refuse to give their gaslighting any credibility at all. If you were a Republican during this era, then you are a MAGA Traitor, racist, rapist, incompetent, intolerant, violent, stupid, pedophile.
And you ALWAYS will be, forever.
Could give em the Hans Landa treatment
Works for me. Brand a Swastika, or MAGA, or PedoCon, or Traitor, etc. Maybe give them their choice.
MBAs are mortal enemies of software engineers. Couple that with what one former CEO of mine said: “engineers have very well tuned bullshit detectors” and you arrive at the problem…
We can send them to work camps like during the Depression.
I’m already there. I don’t hide my revulsion.
This happens with any disruptive tech. In the 80s, Old white CEOs were computerizing everything without understanding computers. 2025 every grey CEO throws around A1 without having the first clue how it works.
Just open the bottle and pour it on your well-done steak?
Probably a reference to secretary of education calling it A1
I see. I can’t keep up!
I really want this to be true, because not only I believe that would be the immediate outcome, but also because it would be hilarious.
But a somewhat credible source that’s not wrapped in “allegedly” and old stories would really help drive the point home.
DevOps cannot be automated away. So stupid.
Yeah I don’t trust the source, but I’ve heard a ton of articles saying they’ve been replacing people with AI.
We cannot have the internet be centralized on central hardware with so little oversight.
The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it’s crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).
The execs started buying into their own bullshit…
I doubt it. Even the article claims that there’s been no news about layoffs since July. No mentions from laid off engineers online either.
July isn’t “days before”, unless you’re really stretching “days”
Days before the Queen of England died, the Roman Empire collapsed. Coincidence? (Literally no, but I sure could speculate).
I’ve been waiting for something like this so we can see who’s heads roll when AI fucks up. I figured we’d see doctors and lawyers losing their licenses first, but maybe it’ll be this. So, who shoulders the blame when a program that can’t learn from its mistakes fucks up a quarter of the internet?
Is there 404 reporting on this yet?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html
It’s not tough to see what led to this crash. Occam’s razor is pretty clear on this one.
Probably why it crashed then
I wish they’d replace the executives first.
Why am I not surprised…
I’d like to read the stackademic link without signing up.
Ask an AI to visit and summarize the page for you /s