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The layoffs come just a month after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction.
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Amazon Layoffs 2025: E-commerce giant Amazon has laid off “at least hundred” employees from its Amazon Web Services cloud computing division, news agency Reuters has reported. The exact number of job cuts has not been disclosed.
The move comes just a month after CEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction.
“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 said while confirming the layoffs.
The affected employees were informed about the layoffs through email on Thursday morning, according to Reuters.
Amazon employed 16 lakh full- and part-time employees globally as of March 31, 2025.
Though the exact number of layoffs is not known, Reuters reports that at least one group, known as ‘specialists’, was affected. Specialists work with customers to help create new product ideas and sell existing services.
The layoffs at Amazon come after similar action by global giants like Microsoft, Meta, and CrowdSrike recently.
According to Reuters, many corporations are increasingly using artificial intelligence to write code for their software and adopting AI agents to automate routine tasks, as they look to save costs and cut reliance on people.
AWS sales rose 17% in the first quarter to $29.3 billion compared to a year earlier and operating income rose 23% to $11.5 billion.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Microsoft laid off about 9,000 employees, or 4% of its workforce, in the latest round of job cuts. The latest layoffs were part of Microsoft’s restructuring efforts amid AI investments. This was the company’s third round of layoffs this year, after about 6,000 jobs cuts (3% of its workforce) in May and over 300 sackings just a week after.
In a statement, Microsoft said the cuts will affect multiple teams around the world, including its sales division and its Xbox video game business.
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