Amazon cuts nearly 1,000 more roles while pouring $220B into AI
Amazon carried out a fresh round of job cuts starting October 6 across customer service, Marketplace support and retail engineering, with teams in India and the UK also affected; a person familiar said fewer than 1,000 employees were impacted. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that a "small number" of roles were eliminated, mainly in the Stores business. The move extends a series of reductions since October 2025: about 14,000 corporate jobs cut that month, another 16,000 in January 2026 touching AWS units including Bedrock, AI cloud services and Redshift, and roughly 17,000 in January–September 2026 per Layoffs.fyi — more than 30,000 in under a year. At the same time, capital spending is hitting record levels, with reports putting 2026 capex at about $200 billion (one report says $220 billion), mostly for AI infrastructure, up sharply from $131 billion in 2025.
It is another example of the big-tech pattern of cutting white-collar costs while redirecting the savings into data centres and custom chips.
根據外媒取得的內部訊息指出，部分亞馬遜（Amazon）員工於 10 月 6 日在內部 Slack 頻道透露，已收到職位遭到裁撤的電子郵件通知。該 Slack 頻道擁有近 3.7 萬名成員，消息一出隨即湧入大量員工提問，焦慮詢問關於資遣費發放細節、是否還能瀏覽內部職缺，以及後續是否還有更多裁員通知。
內部訊息顯示，這波裁員範圍橫跨多個事業單位，涵蓋客服、市集（Marketplace）支援，以及零售業務的工程職缺，甚至連印度與英國分公司的員工也受到波及。不過知情人士透露，此次受影響的總人數不到 1,000 人。亞馬遜發言人隨後向《Business Insider》證實，公司當日確實裁撤了「少量」職位，主要集中於零售（Stores）業務。發言人強調，調整部分 Stores 業務架構是為了更有利於達成公司的優先目標，並承諾將全力協助受影響員工度過職涯轉換期。