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plans to address a string of recent outages, including some that were tied to AI-assisted coding errors, at a retail technology meeting on Tuesday, CNBC has confirmed.
Dave Treadwell, a top executive overseeing the technical foundations of Amazon’s website, told employees that the company’s “This Week in Stores Tech,” or TWiST, meeting would be a “deep dive” on “some of the issues that got us here.” The meeting is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. ET.
“Folks - as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Treadwell, senior vice president of eCommerce Foundation, wrote in a note to employees viewed by CNBC. He added that he was shifting the focus of the meeting “given the incidence of Sev 1s,” referring to high severity incidents that cause outages or degraded performance of critical systems.
Amazon experienced four such incidents in a week, Treadwell said and noted the deep dive is necessary to “regain our strong availability posture.”
