He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional.
Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to approve any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.
Amazon said the review of website availability was “part of normal business” and points to continued improvement.
“TWiST is our regular weekly operations meeting with a targeted group of retail technology leaders and teams where we review operational performance across our store,” the company said.
Separately, the company’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, has suffered at least two incidents related to the use of AI coding assistants, which the company has been actively deploying among its staff.
AWS suffered a 13-hour outage to a cost calculator used by customers in mid-December after engineers allowed the group’s Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, with the AI tool opting to “delete and recreate the environment,” the Financial Times previously reported.
Amazon previously said the December incident was an “extremely limited event” that affected only one service in parts of mainland China. Amazon added that the second incident had no impact on a “customer-facing AWS service.”
The Financial Times previously reported that several Amazon engineers said their business units were having to deal with a greater number of “Sev2s” (incidents that require a rapid response to avoid product disruptions) each day as a result of the job cuts.
Amazon has carried out multiple rounds of layoffs in recent years, most recently eliminating 16,000 corporate positions in January. The group has disputed the claim that staff cuts were responsible for the increase in recent cuts.
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