When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included into today’s round.
TechCrunch is hearing that around 10% of today’s total came from AWS. The company would not confirm those numbers instead referring to Jassy’s memo to employees that was published this morning as the gist of its statement.
According to that memo, the reason the company is doing the layoffs in stages is that some managers were still evaluating their departments and they weren’t ready at the time of the first round. “The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall; and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possib …
