You are acting like this article is god, and taking what both these companies are saying at face value. First of all we already know about what companies are doing to bow down to the orange fascist - Bezos made it very clear himself. What Amazon says is meaningless after the Trump shakedown. Second, the media sucks at covering Trump, this we know from many years of experience.
A 5% reduction in workforce is nothing to sneeze at, and considering the economy was in a totally upward trajectory until three months ago. The single biggest economic factor slowing things down have been the tariffs, and literally ship traffic from China has dropped precipitously - because of, you guessed it, the tariffs - coincidentally a place where Amazon gets a massive bulk of its products from. In fact Amazon was literally going to put the tariff price increase on it's listings, until Bezos bowed to Trump.
These layoffs are a direct result of the tariffs. There is no other way to add 2 + 2 in this instance to be anything but 4. But, not seeing reality and adding things up correctly - that seems to be a really common theme with MAGA