Latest News, Updates & Breaking Headlines
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially confirmed that its cloud infrastructure is back online after the major outage which disrupted hundreds of websites and apps across the internet. The company stated that the incident was caused by a combination of DNS resolution failures and internal load balancer degradation in its US-EAST-1 region, one of its…
BENGALURU: Amazon’s ongoing global restructuring extended to its India operations, impacting an estimated 1,000–1,500 employees, sources told TOI. Affected staff reportedly learned about the layoffs through personal email notifications, with access revoked soon after. Employees were invited via Chime meetings to speak with team leaders or HR representatives about their transition. Badge access for impacted…
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the backbone of much of the internet, has experienced its second major outage this month. Similar to the AWS outage on October 20, this one too appears to be widespread. Reports suggest disruptions across websites, apps, and cloud-based platforms. As reported by DownDetector, the incident started Wednesday (October 29) and it…
This undated combination of photos shows clockwise from top left the company logos for Amazon, Target, Lufthansa Group, UPS, ConocoPhillips, Intel, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Nestle. (AP Photo, file) The hum of the global job market has dimmed to an uneasy silence. For millions, the comforting rhythm of employment has been interrupted by pink…
Amazon is preparing to eliminate 800 to 1,000 positions in India as part of a sweeping global restructuring driven by artificial intelligence adoption, The Economic Times reported on Wednesday, marking one of the largest workforce reductions at the e-commerce giant’s Indian operations.The layoffs will span critical functions including finance, human resources, and technology, with employees…
Online commerce giant Amazon has announced that it is cutting around 14,000 corporate jobs. Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti shared a blog post announcing the job cuts. In the post, Galetti said the company is making “organizational changes across Amazon” that will result in an “overall reduction in our…
Amazon managers received urgent training Monday, October 27 on how to communicate with employees just hours before the company began notifying up to 30,000 corporate workers of their termination, according to Reuters sources and internal documents reviewed by multiple outlets.The layoffs, which began Tuesday morning via email, represent nearly 10% of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees…
Amazon is reportedly preparing for a significant reduction in its corporate workforce, with plans to cut as many as 30,000 jobs starting this week, news agency Reuters reported citing three people familiar with the matter. The massive layoff—which would represent nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees—marks Amazon’s largest job elimination effort since…
MUMBAI: Indian sellers using Amazon’s platform to reach in global markets have sold goods worth over $20 billion since 2015. Amazon terms it as cumulative e-commerce exports. With more small and medium sellers tapping the reach of online to go global, the Seattle-based company is targeting $80-billion worth of cumulative e-commerce exports from India by…
Amazon’s cloud unit, the Amazon Web Services, which essentially invented cloud computing, is showing troubling signs of decline as competitors surge ahead in the artificial intelligence era, according to a Bloomberg report. The cloud giant’s struggles became starkly visible this week with a devastating 15-hour outage that crippled hundreds of companies and consumer applications. Days…
