Amazon slashes cloud computing jobs [Video]

• Amazon is continuing with its layoff plans, with employees at AWS the latest to be hit.
• Reports tell of hundreds of jobs in the sales and marketing divisions of AWS cut.
• The latest cuts come as demand for Amazon’s cloud computing slows down drastically amid a worldwide spending slow down.

No stranger to mass layoffs across its ecommerce business, Amazon is now set to axe hundreds of jobs at the cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS). These latest cuts will see employees in sales and marketing departments affected as the company engages in Zuckerberg-like “streamlining.”

This round of layoffs comes after the company, the worldwide leader in ecommerce with a market cap nearing $2 trillion, announced sweeping layoffs at the end of 2022 and throughout 2023. As many as 27 000 employees were fired by the company following a hiring boom during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’ve identified a …