Amazon layoffs are back — and this time, the cuts are landing somewhere most people never expected. The Selling Partner Services division, the quiet backbone that keeps millions of third-party sellers running on the world's largest online marketplace, is now facing a fresh wave of job eliminations. This follows a brutal run of workforce reductions that saw over 30,000 Amazon employees lose their jobs across multiple rounds — a major cut in October 2025, another in January 2026, and smaller targeted eliminations inside the robotics division.
The pattern is not random. It is not reactive. It is the most deliberate corporate restructuring in Amazon's history, and it is being driven by one force above everything else: artificial intelligence.
