Today, my feed is full of speculation linking the recent AWS layoffs, driven by increased AI automation, to yesterday’s outage. In reality, we don’t really know if AI caused any of it.
What do we know? I read two articles this morning, and one thing that struck me is that AWS was reportedly not able to diagnose the core issue for 75–90 mins. That’s an absurdly long time.
If this timeline is accurate, the extended delay is compelling evidence that critical expertise was either absent or inaccessible when it was most needed, for whatever reason.
Credit for the image goes to Emil Lendof/WSJ.