1,000 Indians may lose jobs as Amazon plans second round of job cuts

Jobs in the company's AWS, retail, Prime Video and human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, units are likely to be affected, though the full scope was unclear.

Amazon’s 2nd round of 30,000-job cut, mostly in technology, human resources and business support functions, plan likely next week. File photo

Around 1,000 Indian employees of Amazon may lose their job as the e-commerce platform is planning a second round of job cuts early next week as part of its plans to retrench 30,000 corporate workers. Last time in October 2025, a similar number of Indians employees had lost jobs, when they announced job cuts of 14,000 white-collar employees.

According to sources, the announcement is likely to be made by 27-28^th of this month. Jobs in the company's Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, units are likely to be affected, the people said, though the full scope was unclear. The people cautioned that the details of Amazon's plans could change.

The US-based e-commerce giant had in October 2025 announced that it would replace nearly 5-6 lakh jobs with robots.

The Seattle online retailer tied the October round of job cuts to the rise of artificial intelligence software, saying in an internal letter that “this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”

However, CEO Andy Jassy later told analysts during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the reduction was “not really financially driven and it’s not even really AI-driven.” Rather, he said, “it’s culture," meaning the company has too much bureaucracy.

“You end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers," he said.

Jassy had said earlier in 2025 that he expected Amazon’s corporate workforce to shrink over time as a result of efficiencies gained from the use of AI.

Corporations are increasingly using AI to write code for their software and adopting AI agents that automate routine tasks, as they look to save costs and cut reliance on people. Amazon touted its latest AI models during its annual AWS cloud computing conference in December.

The full 30,000 jobs would represent a small portion of Amazon’s 1.58 million employees, but nearly 10% of the firm’s corporate workforce. The majority of Amazon’s workers are in fulfillment centers and warehouses.

It would be the largest layoff in Amazon’s three-decade history. The company trimmed about 27,000 jobs in 2022.