India, Jan. 30 -- Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will cut 16,000 corporate positions, marking the company's second major layoff in the past four months. The layoffs represent the latest large-scale workforce reduction since October, when Amazon cut 14,000 roles.

Internal Slack messages reportedly revealed that those being hit by the latest round of layoff are employees in the US, UK, and India.

According to those messages, employees in US, UK and India have been notified about the job cuts, Business Insider reported, adding that the affected groups span multiple areas of the business.

Those affected in the latest layoff include teams within Amazon Web Services, such as the Bedrock AI cloud service, the Redshift cloud data wareho...