Amazon AWS layoffs employees: Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has slashed at least hundreds of jobs. With the latest job cuts, Amazon has joined other tech giants including Microsoft, Facebook parent Meta and Intel that laid off hundreds of employees this year.
Furthermore, this move comes just a month after the CEO Andy Jassy pointed that the increasing adoption of generative AI tools would reduce the workforce, as per a Reuters report.
“We’ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS. These decisions are necessary as we continue to invest, hire, and optimise resources to deliver innovation for our customers,” an Amazon spokesperson was quoted as saying, as per a Reuters report.
Amazon employed 1.6 million full- and part-time workers globally as of the end of March. Several employees claimed to receive termination emails and had their computers deactivated on July 17 morning. Although the full extent of the layoffs is not confirmed yet, the “specialists” group, that assists customers with new product ideas and sells existing services, was notably impacted as per the Reuters report.
Apart from this, many companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence to write code for their software. Also, companies have been adopting AI agents to automate routine tasks to save costs and cut human reliance, the Reuters report said.
“We’ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS,” the Amazon spokesperson said as cited in a Reuters report.
“These decisions are necessary as we continue to invest, hire, and optimize resources to deliver innovation for our customers.”
AWS sales saw a 17% surge in the first quarter that stood at $29.3 billion as against a year ago period. On the other hand, the operating income increased by 23% to $11.5 billion.