All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

This article shares the AWS services and metrics that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026, which ran June 23–26 with millions of deals across 35+ categories.

• AWS Graviton powered 49% of Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com
• Amazon EBS peaked at 24.8 trillion I/O operations, moving over an exabyte of data daily
• AWS Lambda handled 2.3 trillion invocations per day
• Amazon ECS launched 158.3 million tasks per day on Fargate, a 47.7% increase year-over-year
• Amazon CloudFront delivered 2.1 trillion HTTP requests, a 5% increase from 2025
• Amazon DynamoDB processed 59 trillion requests, peaking at 192 million requests per second
• Amazon Aurora processed hundreds of billions of transactions and transferred 1,194 terabytes of data
• Amazon ElastiCache served 2.3 quadrillion daily requests
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams processed 988 million records per second
• AWS CloudTrail surged to 3.6 trillion events in four days, a 44% increase year-over-year
• AWS ran 44,000 FIS experiments to ensure high availability

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