Amazon Layoffs: AWS India hit as Amazon targets 30,000 job cuts

AWS India just lately laid off almost 400 of the 450 Bedrock workers in Chennai and Bengaluru, stated sources
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As Amazon recalibrates its world operations, AWS India is going through the warmth as the corporate has allegedly laid off almost 400 of the 450 Bedrock workers in Chennai and Bengaluru, in keeping with sources conversant in the matter.

Amazon Bedrock is a platform for constructing generative AI purposes and brokers at a manufacturing scale.

Nevertheless, AWS has denied the extent of the layoffs. An AWS Spokesperson shared, “This estimate is wildly incorrect and exaggerates the variety of Bedrock-focused workers impacted in India. We’ve been working to strengthen our organisation by decreasing layers, growing possession, and eradicating forms. That is serving to us function just like the world’s largest start-up and let individuals who work at Amazon have much more possession and even greater affect. We now have a powerful workforce engaged on Bedrock, and we are going to proceed to rent important roles to develop this widespread service for purchasers. We additionally proceed to put money into Bedrock as it’s a significant and rising enterprise for AWS, powering generative AI purposes for greater than 100,000 organizations worldwide.”

In accordance with an inner electronic mail from AWS Vice President Barry Cooks, reviewed by businessline, the adjustments are a part of a broader push to implement a brand new technique aimed toward extra intently aligning the corporate with its clients.

“A lot of at this time’s adjustments are a part of a broader effort to roll out a brand new technique throughout our groups. We’ll evaluate these technique adjustments in additional element at an upcoming all-hands, however I need to spotlight one vital shift,” he stated.

He added within the mail that the corporate is putting a wager on SageMaker as the entrance door for AI coaching & customisation, high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, and quantum experimentation at AWS. He added that there are different adjustments within the groups that the leaders will roll out.

Amazon SageMaker is a totally managed service designed to simplify the method of constructing, coaching, and deploying machine studying (ML) fashions.

‘Not as many hit’

Sources additionally shared that the layoffs have affected AWS and different items inside Amazon in a number of areas, together with the Bay Space, New York, and California within the US, and Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune in India. businessline had earlier reported that Amazon India will lay off round 1,100 workers as a part of the worldwide restructuring plans.

Between hiring and firing

In a weblog publish on January 28, the corporate stated it was shedding roughly 16,000 workers throughout Amazon. This follows an earlier spherical in October that noticed roughly 14,000 employees lose their jobs. In accordance with media reviews, these reductions have been largely concentrated in company and technology-facing roles, together with groups throughout AWS, retail operations, and inner help features.

Nevertheless, through the firm’s Q3 2025 outcomes, Amazon had introduced that it plans so as to add tons of of hundreds of seasonal jobs this vacation season, together with 250,000 within the US and 150,000 in India. Total, it has 1,532,000 workers globally.

In Q3, AWS phase gross sales elevated 20 per cent year-on-year to $33.0 billion. AWS phase’s working earnings was $11.4 billion, in contrast with $10.4 billion in Q3 2024.

Andy Jassy, President and CEO, Amazon, had said, “AWS is rising at a tempo we haven’t seen since 2022, re-accelerating to twenty.2 per cent y-o-y. We proceed to see robust demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been centered on accelerating capability – including greater than 3.8 gigawatts previously 12 months.”

Printed on February 5, 2026