Amazon layoffs hit nearly 2,000 engineers as part of their biggest layoff ever. We're talking about the people who actually built AWS, Alexa, the whole retail infrastructure, the engineers who've been there for years and know exactly how everything fits together.
They're cutting from literally every team, core retail systems to AWS itself. The official story is they need to get lean and move faster on AI. But here's the thing that gets me, these engineers didn't just write code. They've got years of tribal knowledge locked in their heads, they know why systems are designed certain ways, they know which ancient legacy systems will blow up if you touch them, they know what to check when something weird happens at 3 AM.We already got a preview of what happens when this knowledge walks out the door. AWS had a massive outage just weeks before this announcement that took 16 hours to fix for basically a DNS issue. That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the senior engineers who actually know how to debug these systems are already gone from previous rounds of layoffs. The experienced folks have been disappearing, and now the infrastructure's feeling it. When you lose the people who actually understand your systems at that deep level, you don't immediately fall apart but one day, you absolutely will. Be prepared for more AWS outages.Source: StockMarket.News
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