It appears this has been circulating as clickbait since at least July of 2025. (They actually used that old “what happens next will shock you” chestnut…)
I couldn’t find any reliable sources confirming it, and people purporting to be employees say it’s false.
Thank you. Can you share the link where they say that?
I work at AWS corporate, this is BS. There’s a LOT wrong with Amazon as a whole, but I’m tracking to NO org within the company that has had deep cuts solely due to AI.
And the top comment from the hackernews post you shared:
I’m an AWS engineer and I haven’t seen any evidence of engineering layoffs within AWS since early this year. As others have suggested we generally don’t have ”DevOps Workers” either. There’s definitely a push for AI tools, but there’s no indication that it was related to any off this from what I’ve seen.
Again, thank you for sharing.
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