Big Tech Fired 50,000+ Engineers. Your Cloud Data Has Never Been More at Risk.

Big Tech Fired 50,000+ Engineers. Your Cloud Data Has Never Been More at Risk.

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March 14, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the risks to cloud data security following significant layoffs in the tech industry and the implications of AI-generated code.

Amazon is holding emergency meetings. Engineers are being summoned. And the phrase "high blast radius" is appearing in internal briefing notes. On March 5, 2026, Amazon's own Add to Cart button stopped working for six hours. Over 77,000 outage reports flooded in. Amazon earns approximately $1.4 million per minute in online retail revenue. That afternoon cost them tens of millions of dollars. And it was caused by AI generated code, deployed without the seasoned engineers who used to catch these things before they went live. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and Box have collectively cut over 50,000 engineers in the past two years. The people who kept your data safe are gone. The AI generated code is shipping. And it is breaking things. In this episode we walk through what happened, why it matters for every business storing data in the cloud, and exactly how to back up your data before the next outage hits. Back up your Gmail at www.save-emails-as-pdf.com Back up your Google Drive and all cloud data at www.cloudhq.net/backup/google_drive

Topics covered

  • cloud data security
  • AI impact on technology
  • engineering layoffs
  • data backup strategies
  • cloud service outages

Keywords

  • cloud data
  • engineering layoffs
  • AI code
  • data backup
  • Amazon outage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, Box

Products: AI generated code

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