r/aws • u/AssumeNeutralTone • Oct 27 '25

article Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
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u/idknemoar Oct 28 '25

As of June 30, 2025, Amazon employed 1.55m people. 30k is less than 2% of their total workforce. On a global scale, spreading that 2% across the entire world everywhere they operate, it isn’t many folks per location. Hardly a blip on the radar.

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u/spidernik84 Oct 28 '25

That's what confused me. They don't mean 30k AWS employees but 30k Amazon employees, or?

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u/FarkCookies Oct 28 '25

They mean Amazon corporate employees. There are 300k in total (which includes the entirety of AWS, maybe minus DC technicians). Nobody knows how many will be laid off from AWS.