The Amazon Layoffs You Didn’t See Coming

How $160K tech roles were offshored before AWS layoffs hit the headlines.

⚠️ Update (July 17): AWS layoffs in cloud units were just confirmed.

Amazon cut roles across support, training & certification, analytics, and its Worldwide Specialist Organization… functions that help deliver and sell AWS cloud services.

The roles highlighted in this post, Program Managers, Analysts, Specialists…mirror the structure of what’s now being eliminated.

These job cuts are a repeatable cost playbook: offshoring, contractor substitution, and AI-driven flattening.

This is the structural pattern I flagged here 10 days ago.

Where are all the jobs going? You won’t see this on CNBC. But it’s all here.

In the past 18 months, Amazon cut tens of thousands of U.S. corporate roles, and then rebuilt capacity offshore, with cheaper labor, more automation, and a conveniently timed AI narrative. This isn’t theory. That relocation info wasn’t on the news either.

But yes, this is documented, data-backed, and hiding in plain sight.

And if you think these are entry-level support roles… nope.

We’re talking $160K+ jobs too: Program Managers, Sales Ops, Recruiters, Analysts. Roles that were cut in Seattle and NYC... and reappeared in Hyderabad and San José.

Same titles. Same workflows. Fraction of the cost.

In a cooling job market, the optics of this shift are… brutal.

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Amazon can now fill a $160K Seattle job for $35K offshore… a 78% cost drop… without technically laying anyone off.

My post even caught the eye of political figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Whether you agree with her or not, the bipartisan spotlight on workforce restructuring is growing, and companies can’t afford to ignore the optics anymore.

So what’s really happening? Here’s what I found.

If you work in tech, recruit for tech, invest in tech, or just care about where U.S. jobs are going… you need to see this.

This isn’t guesswork. You won’t find it on CNBC, and it’s definitely not on the investor calls.