AWS Powers Record-Breaking Amazon Prime Day 2026 with Unprecedented Data Handling and Compute Efficiency

October 7, 2026
AWS Powers Record-Breaking Amazon Prime Day 2026 with Unprecedented Data Handling and Compute Efficiency
  • During Prime Day, Amazon EBS handled peak activity of more than 24.8 trillion I/O operations and moved over an exabyte of data daily.

  • DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests from June 23 to 26, 2026, with single-digit millisecond latency and peaks at 192 million requests per second.

  • CloudFront served over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests during the Prime Day week, up about 5% from Prime Day last year.

  • CloudTrail logged 3.6 trillion API events in four days, marking a 44% increase versus Prime Day 2025.

  • AWS-powered Prime Day 2026 saw EC2 usage with AWS Graviton powering up to 49% of compute for Amazon.com.

  • Kinesis Data Streams peaked at 988 million records per second during Prime Day 2026.

  • ECS and Fargate processed an average of 158.3 million tasks per day, up 47.7% from the previous year.

  • SNS delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day, while SQS peaked at 213 million messages per second.

  • ElastiCache peaked at serving over 2.3 quadrillion daily requests and 2.1 trillion requests per minute.

  • AWS Lambda executed more than 2.3 trillion invocations on Prime Day 2026.

  • Aurora processed hundreds of billions of transactions, stored 5,491 TB of data, and transferred 1,194 TB of data during Prime Day.

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