Amazon Prime Day 2026, exclusively for Prime members, ran June 23–26, 2026, with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. AWS powered the event, delivering chart-topping metrics.
AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com. Amazon EBS peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations daily. AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day. Amazon ECS on Fargate launched an average of 158.3 million tasks per day, a 47.7% increase from 2025.
Amazon CloudFront delivered over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests. Amazon DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests, peaking at 192 million requests per second. Amazon Aurora processed hundreds of billions of transactions, storing 5,491 terabytes of data. Amazon ElastiCache peaked at serving over 2.3 quadrillion daily requests.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams processed a peak of 988 million records per second. Amazon SNS delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day. Amazon SQS received a peak of 213 million messages per second. AWS CloudTrail processed 3.6 trillion events in four days, a 44% increase. Amazon CloudWatch processed over 2.15 quadrillion metric observations per day. Amazon GuardDuty monitored an average of 14.08 trillion log events per hour, a 59% increase. AWS FIS ran over 44,000 experiments, more than six times the 2025 count.
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