Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) eliminated more roles in its Selling Partner Services division on Wednesday, extending a six-month restructuring that has now cost the company nearly 30,000 positions as it redirects capital toward artificial intelligence.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the cuts to Business Insider, saying the scope reached “a relatively small number of roles.” The company did not disclose an exact headcount.
“We regularly review our organizations to ensure we’re best set up to deliver on our goals,” the spokesperson said. “Following a recent review, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a relatively small number of roles in our Selling Partner Services team. We don’t take decisions like this lightly, and we’re committed to supporting affected employees with transitional health care, a separation payment, and outsourced job placement services.”
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The Selling Partner Services unit coordinates seller onboarding, logistics support, and account management for millions of third-party merchants on Amazon’s marketplace.
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Wednesday’s cuts follow prior rounds in October 2025 and January 2026 that together eliminated roughly 30,000 positions — approximately 14,000 in late 2025, and a further 16,000 in early 2026 affecting AWS, retail, HR and engineering teams. Amazon also cut jobs in its robotics division in March 2026.
The tech sector broadly has shed more than 45,000 jobs since January, according to research firm RationalFX. Layoff tracker layoffs.fyi counted 39,482 cuts across 66 companies in the first quarter of 2026 alone.
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Amazon is simultaneously expanding its engineering headcount. AWS chief Matt Garman said the company plans to hire 11,000 software developers, interns, and engineers in 2026, describing demand for technical talent as “really accelerating.”
Amazon has pledged roughly $200 billion in capital expenditure, with a significant portion earmarked for AI infrastructure and data center buildout. The announcement briefly rattled investors and sent the stock lower before shares rebounded to record highs as the company laid out its long-term AI ambitions.
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