A person familiar with the matter says Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) cut nearly 1,000 corporate employees on Wednesday, in the middle of its Prime Big Deal Days sale. Amazon confirmed the cuts but hasn’t given a headcount.
The cuts fall mainly in the Stores unit behind Amazon’s core online store. Slack posts shared by affected employees suggest customer service and selling partner services teams took hits, possibly along with others. Notices went to employees in the US, India and the UK.
An Amazon spokesperson said the company “adjusted parts of our Stores business” to put the unit in a better position to hit its priorities.
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Wednesday’s cuts follow about 30,000 corporate job losses, Amazon’s biggest workforce reduction ever. It cut roughly 14,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and announced 16,000 more on January 28. In a memo that day, SVP Beth Galetti said Amazon was “reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,” and that recurring layoffs weren’t the plan, though teams would keep making adjustments.
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Smaller rounds followed without disclosed headcounts, hitting robotics in March, Selling Partner Services in May and the artificial general intelligence group in July. The 30,000 figure covers only the October and January rounds.
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Jeff Bezos previously said in a Fox News interview that Amazon overhired during the pandemic, when it “really grew our head count.” The company plans a record $220 billion in spending on data centers, chips and other AI infrastructure, and CEO Andy Jassy has said most of it will go to AWS.
A report says Amazon has contacted some former employees, including laid-off staff, about AI, machine learning and cloud roles, a practice a spokeswoman called longstanding.
