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

[ChrisArchitect]

Related:

Amazon cuts 16k jobs

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

[yesbut]

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

[zenoware]

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__]

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