Late Tuesday night (local time), a major operational slip-up took place at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing arm. An email, ostensibly signed by Colleen Aubrey, Senior Vice President of AWS Applied AI Solutions, was inadvertently dispatched hours before its intended release time. This premature dispatch wrongly informed pertinent employees in the U.S., Canada, and Costa Rica that they were losing their jobs. This blunder not only disrupted the company's officially laid-out layoff procedure but also ignited a wave of internal panic.

The email disclosed that the layoff initiative was internally dubbed 'Project Dawn' and indicated that the HR director would follow up with supplementary details. However, these additional details never materialized. Amazon has announced its intention to lay off thousands of corporate staff starting this week. Yet, it has neither officially informed the affected employees nor confirmed this move to the public. The premature email sent employees' anxiety levels soaring, especially since the layoffs are set to impact multiple departments, with the precise scale and scope still shrouded in mystery.

This incident marks yet another instance of large-scale layoffs at Amazon in recent times. This round of layoffs is perceived as a continuation of the company's earlier objective to trim around 30,000 corporate positions.