Amazon Web Services (AWS) is cutting several hundreds of jobs again, this time across specific Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) organizations, an internal email accessed by Moneycontrol said.
The email was sent out to the employees by Matt Garman, SVP, Sales & Marketing at AWS, Amazon Inc’s cloud division.
“We have identified a few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline in order to continue further investing in those key strategic areas that we believe will deliver maximum impact, Garman said in the email, adding that the company is looking to optimize teams and have “found duplications in job families such as program management and sales operations.”
An AWS spokesperson confirming the same said, "These decisions are difficult but necessary as we continue to invest, hire, and optimize resources to deliver innovation for our customers."
AWS will be helping the laid off employees transition, by providing packages that include a transitional period with full pay and benefits, a separation payment, transitional benefits as applicable by country, an internal job search period for potential redeployment, and external job placement support, the email said.
Notifications to the impacted employees will be sent by today across the US and Canada, and in Latin America. In other regions, there will be time given for a consultation with employee representative bodies starting as soon as today, which can possibly delay communication timelines for them.
This comes a year after AWS let go around 27,000 employees in multiple rounds after over hiring during the pandemic. At least 500 Indian employees too were laid off previously, but the impact came in a month later after the global downsizing.
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