New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Amazon has made another round of job cuts, affecting fewer than 1,000 employees across several teams, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The cuts are the latest in a series of small reductions since a larger round of 30,000 job cuts that began last year and continued into January.

The job cuts comes even as CEO Andy Jassy prepares the company for a record $220 billion spending spree on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. In fact, it has been reaching out to former employees, including some laid off in earlier rounds, about open roles in AWS and its AI businesses.

The latest layoffs hit parts of Amazon's customer service, marketplace support and retail engineering operations, with employees in the US, India...