The cloud division of Amazon received an internal announcement which confirmed imminent job cuts through an accidental email sent by Amazon Web Services to its employees on Tuesday. The email which referred to “organizational changes” sent out by the company “according to reports by CNBC and Reuters” was sent out by mistake to the recipients.

Colleen Aubrey who serves as Senior Vice President of Applied AI Solutions at AWS declared in her email that AWS made the decision to raise prices because “changes like this are hard on everyone” and the organization wanted to guarantee future success for the business. The message also referenced HR chief Beth Galetti’s post which mentioned that impacted colleagues in the U.S. Canada and Costa Rica had already been notified of job losses.

The meeting which had been planned for Wednesday was canceled after the accidental email was sent out, which resulted in employees losing all information about when their layoffs would happen. The upcoming cuts will affect employees across AWS and retail and Prime Video and human resources divisions according to sources, which currently lack specific numbers about affected employees.

Amazon plans to cut approximately 30000 corporate positions through its current layoffs which follow the previous round of layoffs in October 2025 that affected 14000 employees. The reduction aims to streamline management layers and cut bureaucracy according to CEO Andy Jassy.

Amazon closed job positions in its Fresh grocery and Go retail units because the company wants to close certain stores while converting them into Whole Foods outlets. The company has not disclosed the total number of affected positions but the job cuts will eliminate almost 10 percent of Amazon’s corporate workforce which includes 1.58 million employees worldwide.