Amazon is set to cut around 30,000 corporate jobs worldwide — its most significant workforce reduction yet — as it accelerates a sweeping, AI-led transformation across its global operations.

The restructuring, affecting nearly 9 per cent of its white-collar workforce, reflects CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to streamline teams, eliminate overlaps, and reallocate resources toward high-growth areas powered by machine learning and generative AI.

The move follows a broader trend sweeping through Big Tech, as companies increasingly replace manual processes with automation and AI-enabled systems. Analysts say the shake-up underscores a hard pivot toward productivity, innovation, and sustainable cost discipline in an era where efficiency defines competitive advantage.

For Amazon, this marks both a recalibration and a reaffirmation — a shift from scale to intelligence, from manpower to machine power — as the company positions itself to lead the global race for AI supremacy.