AWS Powers Record-Breaking Amazon Prime Day 2026 with Unprecedented Data Handling and Compute Efficiency
October 7, 2026
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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Amazon Web Services • Oct 7, 2026
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS | Amazon Web Services