{"id":5068,"date":"2025-07-19T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5068\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:34:13","slug":"amazon-eliminates-hundreds-of-cloud-computing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5068\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Eliminates Hundreds of Cloud Computing Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those cuts happened Thursday (July 17), Reuters reported<\/a>, citing two sources. A spokesperson for Amazon confirmed the cuts in a statement to PYMNTS.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we\u2019ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t make these decisions lightly, and we\u2019re committed to supporting the employees throughout their transition. These decisions are necessary as we continue to invest, hire and optimize resources to deliver innovation for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also pointed out that it is continuing to hire in other areas, including within AWS. While the Reuters report notes that the layoffs came one month after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that artificial intelligence AI would lead to job cuts, the company insisted to PYMNTS that these cuts were not related to AI, but rather the results of a review on areas that could be streamlined.<\/p>\n

Several workers told Reuters they had gotten emails on Thursday morning that notified them they had been let go and their computers were being deactivated.<\/p>\n

Reuters said it could not determine the full scope of the layoffs but added at least one group, known as \u201cspecialists,\u201d was impacted. These employees work with customers to help create new product ideas and sell existing services.<\/p>\n

The report noted that the cuts put Amazon in the company of a growing list of tech giants, including Microsoft, Meta, and CrowdStrike to announce job cuts<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Jassy on June 17 had sent a message to employees telling them that workers who have learned to use AI will be better positioned to be a part of Amazon<\/a> in the future. He added that the company\u2019s corporate workforce is likely to shrink over the next few years as the company embraces AI, which he described as the most transformative technology to come along since the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who embrace this change, become conversant in AI, help us build and improve our AI capabilities internally and deliver for customers, will be well-positioned to have high impact and help us reinvent the company,\u201d Jassy said in the message.<\/p>\n

Other executives have offered starker warnings, like Ford CEO Jim Farley<\/a>, who told the Aspen Ideas Festival that \u201cartificial intelligence is going to replace literally half<\/a> of all white-collar workers in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research from PYMNTS Intelligence, as seen in the report \u201cWorkers Say Fears About GenAI Taking Their Jobs Is Overblown,\u201d<\/a> shows that 54% of workers said that generative AI posed a \u201csignificant risk of widespread job displacement.\u201d\u00a0The research also found that 38% were worried the technology could eventually bring about the elimination of their specific jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those cuts happened Thursday (July 17), Reuters reported, citing two sources. A spokesperson for Amazon confirmed the cuts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[256,2573,254,64,63,5610,2575,257,44,6628,105,6834],"class_list":{"0":"post-5068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon-web-services","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-aws","14":"tag-cloud-computing","15":"tag-computing","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pymnts-news","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-whats-hot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}