Amazon Cuts Jobs in Cloud Services Arm Amid Spiraling AI Costs

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia.

Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc. is cutting jobs in its cloud-computing division, the latest big tech company to pare its headcount amid rising costs for artificial intelligence.

The firings affected various teams at Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing service, company spokesperson Brad Glasser said Thursday.