[placardloop]

Within AWS this role falls under the Systems Engineer job family. It is not a devops role, and its involvement in events like today would be the same involvement as every other SWE at Amazon.

Just do a quick google search for that “40% of devops laid off” and you’ll see that it’s actually an old article from months ago that multiple people, including AWS employees, are saying is bullshit and unsourced.

edit: found another source that says this 40% number came from an AWS consultant that worked with customers to help them be better at DevOps, and it was 40% of their specific team that was laid off. Even if it were true, it has nothing to do with the internal operations of AWS services. This is why it’s important to understand the information you’re sharing before making judgements off of it.

[dijit]

All I am finding are corroborating articles, maybe you can help me here.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/aws_sheds_jobs/

Seems wild that you would promote job titles you don’t hire for, makes me think that it’s reasonable for news outlets to refer to those roles in the same way honestly.

[placardloop]

There is nothing in that article that mentions either devops or 40% of any team or role being cut. It doesn’t corroborate anything.