Amazon flourished at the height of the pandemic but hit the skids last year. Falling e-commerce sales and a slowdown in its cloud-computing business, the company's other big earner, have eroded revenues and precipitated a cost-cutting drive. As a consequence, more than 18,000 roles were scrapped in January, followed by another round of job cuts in late March when a further 9,000 staff got their walking papers.

According to TechCrunch, around 10% of the total came from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon also announced it was shutting down website Digital Photography Review as part of the recent cull.

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