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Just a few days after taking out half of the world’s internet, Amazon is undergoing the biggest layoffs in the corporation’s 31 year history.

Reuters was the first to alert workers that the job cuts were expected to start Tuesday, affecting over 30,000 corporate roles. Sure enough, starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) — yes, the infrastructure-providing part of the company that brought down everything from Fortnite to Bored Ape NFTs when it failed spectacularly last week — began receiving texts and emails bearing the bad news.

Overall, 30,000 workers is just a drop in the bucket for Amazon’s workforce of 1.5 million of warehouse workers, drivers, and other blue collar roles. But as far as corporate employees go, that number accounts for a brutal 10 percent. Per sources who spoke to Reuters, the massive firing spree is a corrective measure meant to compensate for over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“What we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly,” she continued. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones).”