Will Layoffs Come to AWS in 2023?

Late last year, reports surfaced that AWS managers had been told to stop hiring and to stack-rank their team members to force out the lowest performers. On top of that, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in a November memo to expect “more role reductions … early in 2023.”

So far, AWS has managed to avoid the tranches of job losses that other Amazon divisions have undergone. But that could change as AWS buys fewer memory chips (a key growth or slowdown indicator) and as end users better control their cloud spending (perhaps to the company’s chagrin).

Over at TheLayoff.com, AWS staff aren’t feeling too optimistic about jobs.

“I don’t think we’re anywhere near over,” wrote one in late December, speculating about another wave of layoffs.

“It’ll probably continue in January,” responded another.

As of Jan. 4, however, AWS yet to announce layoffs.