CEO Adam Seripsky at the keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) began laying off workers on April 24, 2023. The AWS layoffs are part of Amazon’s plans to lay off 9,000 additional workers across the company. This was revealed in an internal email seen by an Insider.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced on April 24 that the company plans to cut an additional 9,000 employees, adding to the 18,000 layoffs announced in early 2023. The additional cuts will take place in the coming weeks and will affect AWS, live-streaming platform Twitch and employees in the company’s advertising business, Jassy said.
According to leaked internal emails and testimonials from employees who attended an all-hands meeting, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said the cuts would cost Amazon’s giant cloud subsidiary AWS “just one employee.” It said in March that it would target “digit percentages.”
It’s not yet clear which departments have been affected, but two people familiar with the matter said the company’s ProServe (professional services team) was hit particularly hard.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that CEO Selipsky sent the following email to employees:
Here’s the full text of Ceripsky’s email:
Dear AWS Team Members
As you know, we recently made the difficult decision to shut down several divisions of Amazon worldwide, including AWS. Today, we sent a notification message to all affected employees in the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica to let them know that we have begun discussions with affected AWS employees. In other regions, we follow local processes and may take longer to communicate with affected employees if consultations with employee representative bodies are undertaken.
Our company is in a difficult situation. I fully understand the impact on everyone affected and their families. We treat all parties with respect and are committed to providing many resources and touchpoints to assist in the transition. We also offer packages that include retirement benefits, health insurance benefits and external job placement assistance.
To all of you who leave us today, thank you for all you have done for this business and our customers. Thank you very much. To all AWS builders, thank you for your thoughtfulness and empathy for your colleagues.
Driven by customer demand for the unique value offered by the cloud and AWS, we have grown significantly in the size of our business and team over the past few years. This growth was only possible because we moved as quickly as possible to build what our customers wanted.
Given this rapid growth and the overall business and macroeconomic climate, it is critical that we identify our top priorities and focus our resources on them. This is what matters most to our customers, and it changes the course of our business. In many cases, this means team members changing projects, initiatives and teams, which in some cases results in job cuts like this one.
Our business fundamentals are strong, our outlook is robust and we are very confident in our long-term prospects. We are a top-class cloud provider in various benchmarks ranging from feature packages, security, and operational performance. We focus on continuing to innovate in the areas that matter most to our customers so they can minimize costs, innovate faster and transform their organizations.
I am optimistic about the future. We will continue to challenge business opportunities, overcome difficulties, and change the world.
thank you.
Adam
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(Edited by Toshihiko Inoue)
Source: BusinessInsider
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