Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

Amazon cut under 1,000 roles across multiple teams on Oct. 7, 2026, with notices hitting employees via internal emails and a large Slack channel that quickly filled with questions about severance, internal job postings, and notice-period logistics. The reductions were concentrated in the Stores business and spanned customer service, marketplace support, and engineering roles tied to retail, with affected staff in the US, India, and the UK. A company spokesperson said the changes were intended to realign team structures to better deliver priorities and confirmed the elimination of a “small number” of roles while pledging transition support.

The layoffs come after roughly 30,000 job cuts earlier this year and amid a major capital shift toward AI: Amazon plans to spend about $220 billion on data centers, chips, and related infrastructure. Employees have been bracing for further reductions, scaling back multi-quarter planning and parsing internal meetings for signs of change. Questions inside the company included whether severance is forfeited if someone accepts an outside offer during a 90-day notice and whether access to corporate tools would continue. Amazon is also contacting some previously departed employees about openings in AWS and AI teams, mirroring other Big Tech moves that pair workforce cuts with accelerated AI investment.