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The Amazon Layoffs You Didn't See Coming


How $160K tech roles were offshored before AWS layoffs hit the headlines.

Amazon cut roles across support, training & certification, analytics, and its Worldwide Specialist Organization … functions that help deliver and sell AWS cloud services. These job cuts are a repeatable cost playbook: offshoring, contractor substitution, and AI-driven flattening. In the past 18 months, Amazon cut tens of thousands of U.S. corporate roles, and then rebuilt capacity offshore, with cheaper labor, more automation, and a conveniently timed AI narrative.

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