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How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales

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This article summarizes how AWS powered Amazon Prime Day 2024, the biggest Prime Day shopping event ever with record sales and items sold. It highlights the massive scale and usage of various AWS services during the event.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Key metrics and usage numbers for AWS services like Amazon EC2, EBS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, QuickSight, SageMaker, SES, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and CloudFront during Prime Day 2024
  • The rigorous preparation and testing done using AWS services like Fault Injection Service and AWS Countdown to ensure operational readiness and resilience for Prime Day
  • A recommendation to use AWS Countdown to prepare for large-scale events, citing the example of Legal Zoom's successful migration


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