- Amazon is laying off an unspecified number of employees in its cloud computing division, the company confirmed.
- The company has continued to lay off groups of employees this year after cutting more than 27,000 jobs since 2022.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has predicted its corporate workforce could shrink as a result of the company embracing generative artificial intelligence.
Amazon
is laying off some staffers in its cloud computing division, the company confirmed Thursday.
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“After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we’ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS,” Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said in a statement. “We didn’t make these decisions lightly, and we’re committed to supporting the employees throughout their transition.”
The company declined to say which units within Amazon Web Services were impacted, or how many employees will be let go as a result of the job cuts.
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Reuters was first to report on the layoffs.
In May, Amazon
reported
a third straight quarterly revenue miss at AWS. Sales increased 17% to $29.27 billion in the first quarter, slowing from 18.9% in
the prior period
.
Amazon said the cuts weren’t primarily due to investments in artificial intelligence, but are a result of ongoing efforts to streamline the workforce and refocus on certain priorities. The company said it continues to hire within AWS.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been on a cost-cutting mission for the past several years, which has resulted in more than 27,000 employees being let go since 2022. Job reductions have continued this year, though at a smaller scale than preceding years. Amazon’s
stores
,
communications
, and
devices and services
divisions have been hit with layoffs in recent months.
AWS
last year
cut hundreds of jobs in its physical stores technology and sales and marketing units.
Last month, Jassy
predicted
that Amazon’s corporate workforce could shrink even further as a result of the company embracing generative AI.
“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” Jassy told staffers. “It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.”
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