Amazon trimmed at least hundreds of jobs in his Computer Unit in the Amazon Web Services cloud on Thursday, two reuters said, only one month after the CEO Andy Jassy warned that the adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools would trigger a reduction in the workforce.
A Amazon spokesman confirmed that he had cut jobs, but did not provide a figure.
Amazon, who employed 1.6 million workers full and partially worldwide at the end of March, has joined a growing list of companies, including Microsoft, Meta and Crowdstrike to announce dismissals this year.
Many companies increasingly use artificial intelligence to write code for their software and adopt AI agents to automate routine tasks, since they seek to save costs and reduce dependence on people.
“We have made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles in private teams in AWS,” said Amazon spokesman in a statement sent by email. “These decisions are necessary as we continue to invest, hire and optimize resources to offer innovation to our clients.”
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Amazon has been making gradual job cuts
AWS sales increased 17% in the first quarter to 29.3 billion dollars compared to the previous year and operational revenues increased 23% to 11.5 billion dollars.
Several employees told Reuters that they had received emails on Thursday morning in which they were informed that they had been fired and that their computers were being deactivated.
While Reuters could not determine the total scope of layoffs, at least one group, known as “specialists”, was affected. Specialists work with customers to help create new product ideas and sell existing services.
Several groups within AWS were part of the layoffs, said Amazon.
Amazon has been making gradual jobs cuts, more recently in its book, devices and services unit, as well as in its Wondery podcast division. Jassy is reducing what has described as an excess of bureaucracy in the company, even eliminating managers.
With Reuters information.
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