An accidental email revealed the scope of Amazon’s workforce purge. For thousands of cloud professionals, the news hit personally.
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A few hours ago, Jason Dunn posted a single emoji to LinkedIn: 💔
No explanation. No context. Just a broken heart.
Within an hour, hundreds of concerned followers had reacted. About a hundred comments flooded in. The AWS community knew exactly what it meant because they’ve been reading the headlines.
The man who had built and nurtured the AWS Community Builders program, the person who had touched tens of thousands of developers, architects, and cloud professionals the world over (and yes, that includes New Zealand), was gone.
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“I don’t know what to think or feel seeing all the world that you helped to build,” wrote Suzana in the comments, “a world based on respect, friendship, trust, mutual support, and community growth, crumble, and like sand, slip through my fingers.”