A quick search tells me that there's approximately 5 million software engineers in the US and about 40,000 of them work at Amazon. Given that even though that'

A quick search tells me that there's approximately 5 million software engineers in the US and about 40,000 of them work at Amazon. Given that even though that's a big number it's less than 1% I'm skeptical it would have much impact if the entirety of Amazon went out of business tomorrow. If anything, there'd likely be a bidding war to try and snatch up the talent. Things might be different if Meta/Facebook which currently sets the top market rate went out of business. That would probably slow down developer salaries a little bit but again I'm skeptical any one company going under would have that big of an impact. The much bigger impact to Amazon going out of business would be people scrambling to get off of AWS. Given how slowly some companies move, that would be a big deal and incredibly painful. Everything else Amazon does would get eaten up by the competition in a year or so but AWS has a big bad moat around it.