Amazon Web Services Again Lays Off Hundreds Of Staff

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has removed several hundred sales, marketing and technology roles (photo: x @amazonnews)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has removed several hundred sales, marketing, and technology roles, as delivered on Wednesday, March 3 which is the latest step in a series of job cuts by its parent Amazon.com.

According to the Amazon Staff cloud computing division, the impacted included several hundred people in AWS's global sales, marketing and services division as well as a physical store technology team.

"We have identified several specific areas of the organization we need to repair," an AWS spokesperson said in an email.

Amazon has in recent months fired hundreds of staff in the division, including Prime Video services, healthcare business, and Alexa's voice assistant unit, as major tech companies expanded their cuts in mass work over the past two years to 2024.

More than 57,000 workers have been sacked in 229 companies so far this year, according to Layoffs.fyi's tracking site. Amazon has sacked more than 27,000 in 2022 and 2023, after the tech industry recruited too many people during the pandemic.

The cuts in AWS' global sales, marketing and services division, which have the power of 60,000 people, are likely part of a broad reorganization under sales leader Matt Garman, according to news website The Information, which first reported on this development.

Despite a slowdown in growth last year due to uncertain economics, Amazon's cloud business has shown signs of stabilization, helping the company beat quarterly revenue expectations in February.

However, its position as the world's largest cloud provider is being tested by Microsoft's competitors, who have taken an early lead in the race to make money from generative artificial intelligence through investing in ChatGPT creator OpenAI.