AI agent workloads are driving a surge in AWS CPU wait times and latency failures at peak load
Incident Provisional 66% confidence first seen
Two articles report that AI—particularly agentic systems that spawn very large numbers of agents—has increased CPU demand and CPU wait times in AWS environments. They also describe enterprise agent deployments missing strict end-to-end latency targets because CPU-bound, sequential operations across distributed systems contribute a large share of total latency, limiting the effectiveness of adding more GPU capacity.