AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)

This article summarizes AWS announcements and updates from the week of October 13, 2026, highlighting Prime Day 2026 infrastructure performance and new AI and database capabilities.

• Prime Day 2026 peaked at 2.3 quadrillion daily requests on ElastiCache; DynamoDB processed 59 trillion requests at 192M req/sec
• Claude Haiku 5.5 now available on Amazon Bedrock at 75% lower cost than Haiku 4.5 with effort controls for cost-intelligence tuning
• Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic enables real-time voice agents with improved reasoning, lower latency, and 256K context window
• GuardDuty RDS Protection detects data exfiltration and destruction on Aurora/RDS PostgreSQL using ML-based anomaly detection
• Lambda now supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources via enterprise identity providers
• Redshift adds Apache Iceberg materialized views for pre-computed joins and aggregations queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine
• Strands Box provides open-source AI agent sandboxes with OS-level containment and fine-grained Dogwood policies

AWS continues expanding AI capabilities, security features, and database functionality while maintaining infrastructure reliability at massive scale.