To cut costs further, Amazon shut down the production team of online courses such as "Free AWS tutorials"

On the morning of October 27, Beijing time, it was reported that Amazon's efforts to cut costs are further spreading throughout the company, and even some small teams with little financial expenses have been cut.

It is reported that Amazon is planning to shut down an online learning team responsible for creating online programming and cloud computing tutorials. The company currently offers hundreds of courses on its online learning website, many of which are free content on topics including data science and software engineering. The content will remain on the site, but the company will not update any further, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.

The team of fewer than 100 people was informed of the change last week. They can choose to leave Amazon with severance pay or find other positions within the company by February.

Amazon will also close an online learning platform in India that provides tutoring courses for students preparing to take India's fiercely competitive engineering and medical school entrance exams, according to a current employee. The app, called Amazon Academy, was launched in the educational technology market in January 2021, but the competition in the field had already become fierce.

An Amazon spokesman said: "within Amazon, we like to think, experiment, and invest in new ideas to please our customers. We also constantly evaluate the progress and potential of our products and services in providing customer value, and we make regular business adjustments based on these assessments."

These measures are one of the strictest cost-cutting measures in Amazon's history. Over the past few decades, the e-commerce giant has often reinvested its business, even if it means losing money. But moves like this show that the leadership team is now most concerned about the company's profitability, so they won't miss a corner.

The new cost-cutting approach is a response to a marked slowdown in growth and a looming recession. In recent months, the company has imposed a recruitment freeze in its retail business, withdrew plans for warehouse expansion and urged employees to "redouble economy". Other projects the company has cancelled in recent weeks include several robot projects and secret moon landings.