Starting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS remains the world’s largest public cloud provider (even as Microsoft Azure trails not far behind). Yet, as part of parent company Amazon, it, too, has fallen prey to tech sector layoffs. (Recall that Amazon early this month announced it will cut 18,000 jobs.)

This week, a quick LinkedIn search showed a number of AWS recruiters, from technical to military, and software developers, losing their jobs. One poster worked on the AWS traffic engineering team, an initiative to migrate services to native AWS. Another area that appears hard-hit is Amazon’s security and payment business. On that side, one software developer said his most recent project was leading the charge to make Venmo a payment method on Amazon.com. Business Insider on Jan. 18 posted an article reviewing all 35 groups at Amazon affected, including people within AWS’ People Experiences and Technology Solutions and the talent acquisitions groups.