Amazon

Amazon is a global technology and e-commerce conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington, operating the world's largest online marketplace and the dominant cloud infrastructure platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company is a major player in the AI infrastructure space, providing hyperscaler compute capacity across data center regions worldwide and offering AI/ML services through AWS Bedrock and Amazon Q. In 2026, Amazon confirmed approximately 16,000 white-collar job cuts (~10% of its corporate workforce), citing AI-driven efficiency gains, while also facing scrutiny over AWS reliability incidents attributed to GenAI-assisted code deployments.