Amazon's "Project Dawn" cuts 30k jobs while AWS loses its community champion

Amazon's "Project Dawn" cuts 30k jobs while AWS loses its community champion(jpcaparas.medium.com)

5 points by yesbut 107 days ago | 4 comments

Amazon cuts 16k jobs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745

yesbut 107 days ago |

> An accidental email revealed the scope of Amazon’s workforce purge. For thousands of cloud professionals, the news hit personally.

zenoware 106 days ago |

From https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1qpwecg/amazons_projec...

> It's devastating for the AWS community. Ross Barich and Jason Dunn have done so much to build and support the AWS Hero and AWS Community Builder programs and both were fired by 3am text message. Sigh.

If you check out the comments on Jeff's LI post, you'll see how much he is loved by the entire AWS community.

__patchbit__ 107 days ago |

Maybe it is a "wokemob" correction if the intended effect pans out well for Amazon.