Layoffs began yesterday in the Amazon hardware division that makes products including Echo, Alexa, Fire, and Kindle devices."We notified impacted employees yesterday, and will continue to work closely with each individual to provide support, including assisting in finding new roles," Amazon Senior VP of Devices & Services Dave Limp wrote to his department's staff today in a memo posted publicly by Amazon."[G]iven the current macro-economic environment (as well as several years of rapid hiring), some teams are making adjustments, which in some cases means certain roles are no longer necessary," Amazon said in a statement provided to Ars.The Wall Street Journal wrote that "Amazon could cut about 10,000 jobs, including in its retail, devices and human-resources divisions, a person familiar with the matter said, who also noted that the final number could change.The WSJ report said some of the initial layoffs hit employees in Amazon's Luna cloud-gaming service, Alexa marketing, Alexa AI and Alexa Privacy, and the consumer product-development division Lab126."