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Amazon Layoffs 2026: 30,000 Corporate Jobs Cut as "Project Dawn" Hits AWS and India Hubs

  The Great Corporate Reset: Analyzing Amazon’s 30,000-Employee Reduction in 2026 Chapter 1: The Breaking Point – Why 2026 is Different For years, Amazon was the "everything store" that hired everyone. During the rapid expansion of the early 2020s, the company’s corporate headcount ballooned. But on January 28, 2026, the music finally stopped. The announcement of 16,000 additional layoffs—bringing the total for the 2025-26 cycle to 30,000—marks a fundamental shift in Big Tech. Unlike the "panic layoffs" of 2023 that were blamed on high interest rates, the 2026 cuts are surgical. This is a deliberate "de-layering." Amazon is no longer just trying to save money; it is trying to save its soul from the "Day 2" bureaucracy that Jeff Bezos famously warned against. Chapter 2: Inside "Project Dawn" and the AWS Impact The most shocking aspect of the 2026 wave is the hit to Amazon Web Services (AWS) . Historically, AWS was the "golden goose...