When the retail part of the Amazon froze corporate hiring, that was a real freeze - open (previously approved but unfilled) positions were closed/advertising pu

When the retail part of the Amazon froze corporate hiring, that was a real freeze - open (previously approved but unfilled) positions were closed/advertising pulled. This isn't that. This is just AWS finally meeting hiring targets (i.e. filling open, approved headcount) in some parts of the business and not continuing to hire beyond them. Other parts of AWS are still hiring. Backfills for attrition are still a thing, etc. What this really says is that the job market and/or the aggregate risk tolerance of job seekers (e.g. betting on a startup) has cooled.