There is a new top down order for the VP level stack ranking to be done by end of JAN and the bottom 20% to be part of the upcoming AWS layoff in FEB.

April 3, 2024 - The AWS spokesperson said the company decided to make cuts to the store technology division "as a result of a broader strategic shift in the use of some applications in Amazon's owned as well as in third-party stores."

April 8, 2024 - Amazon itself has been responsible for more than 27,000 layoffs in 2022 and 2023, with over-hiring during the pandemic and a focus on AI and automation considered to be the key factors.

Hundreds of employees in Amazon Web Services (AWS) are being laid off as the organisation cites a need to streamline its operations, according to reports.

April 4, 2024 - AWS has announced it will cut hundreds of jobs across several areas of the business as the cloud giant looks to reduce costs and ‘streamline’ operations. The hyperscaler revealed several hundred roles spanning its sales, marketing, and global services organization will be cut in the layoffs, as well as a few further hundred from its Physical Stores Technology team.

Amazon Web Services confirmed to CRN that Amazon’s latest 9,000 employee layoff round will impact a “small, single-digit percentage” of AWS employees.

The $97 billion Seattle-based company said the layoffs were needed to “streamline” some business units while shifting efforts toward more “key strategic areas.” · “Once all processes related to this action are complete, we expect these role eliminations to impact several hundred roles in specific areas of the sales, marketing, and global services organization and a few hundred roles in the physical stores technology team,” an AWS spokesperson said in an email to CRN.

April 3, 2024 - More than 57,000 workers have been laid off across 229 firms so far this year, according to tracking website Layoffs.fyi. Amazon had laid off more than 27,000 in 2022 and 2023, after the tech industry hired too many people during the pandemic.

April 3, 2024 - Many large tech companies have ... in late 2022 and early 2023, seeking to focus their businesses and reduce operating costs. AWS was among the Amazon divisions impacted by the company’s overall reduction of 27,000 jobs in two major waves ...

December 15, 2023 - The layoffs will happen over the next few weeks. Amazon isn’t commenting beyond Jassy’s message to workers. AWS implemented a hiring freeze last year which it has yet to lift.

March 20, 2023 - As we’ve just concluded the second phase of our operating plan (“OP2”) this past week, I’m writing to share that we intend to eliminate about 9,000 more positions in the next few weeks — mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch.

October 28, 2025 - Layoffs.fyi, a website tracking tech job cuts, estimated that about 98,000 jobs have been lost so far this year among 216 companies. For all of 2024, the figure was 153,000. Amazon's largest profit center, cloud computing unit AWS, reported ...

The latest job cutting follows the most extensive layoffs in the company’s 31-year history with 27,000 corporate employees cut in 2022 and 2023. It also follows other, smaller reductions in force in 2025.

The layoffs will affect several major divisions, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Operations, Devices and Services, and Human Resources (known internally as PXT).

“And there has been an impact on AWS recruiting teams from this—less resources needed to recruit talent, obviously, if there is a hiring pause.” · AWS has remained in a hiring freeze since late 2022...

April 3, 2024 - Since then, it has continued targeted layoffs, including cuts to Prime Video and Twitch, its livestreaming service. In February, Amazon also made cuts to its health care teams, including its pharmacy operation and One Medical, the primary care ...

October 28, 2025 - The news is unlikely to bode well ... announced plans to cut 18,000 jobs · in early 2023. Some · 27,000+ have been impacted by layoffs between 2022 and 2024....

October 28, 2025 - It laid off around 27,000 workers over several months in 2022, as rivals similarly looked to reverse hiring increases made during the pandemic. After the company posted its latest financial results in July, its more subdued profit guidance for ...

October 31, 2025 - The latest round of layoffs follows the company’s major restructuring in late 2022 and 2023, when 27,000 employees were let go across divisions. The new cuts bring Amazon’s total job reductions over the past three years to more than 40,000 ...

These layoffs follow Amazon’s earlier eliminations of 27,000 jobs between 2022 and 2024 — but this new wave is more strategically focused on roles considered replaceable by AI or internal automation systems.