Cramer: Amazon layoffs will help costs, but growth in this one area is whats needed most

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Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs as it shifts resources toward higher-priority areas like generative AI. The article focuses on investor attention on Amazon Web Services, since AWS remains the key growth engine for the company. Jim Cramer argues the layoffs matter less than whether AWS can keep expanding fast enough to support Amazon’s stock performance. Amazon has been underperforming peers this year, but the company continues to invest in cloud and AI while reducing bureaucracy and costs.

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