[ovis]

At least according to Amazon,

"Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall; and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible."

(From the announcement.)

[marcosdumay]

Everything on any such announcement is a lie.

[TheSoftwareGuy]

This seems overly cynical. It makes a lot of sense to wait until teams have completed their planning. It allows the executives to sift through the proposed projects and decide specifically which ones to cut.

Also, it is pretty easy to confirm with anybody who works at AWS that OP2 planning process did in fact complete recently