All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
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- Amazon Prime Day 2026 ran from June 23 to 26 exclusively for Prime members, offering millions of deals across 35 categories.
- AWS Graviton powered 49% of Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com during Prime Day.
- Amazon EBS peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations, moving more than an exabyte of data daily.
- AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day, and Amazon ECS launched 158.3 million tasks daily on Fargate (47.7% increase year-over-year).
- Amazon DynamoDB processed 59 trillion requests over four days, peaking at 192 million requests per second with single-digit millisecond responses.
- Other services achieved staggering metrics: CloudFront delivered 2.1 trillion HTTP requests, ElastiCache served 2.3 quadrillion daily requests, SNS sent 5 trillion messages in a day, and CloudTrail logged 3.6 trillion events in four days.
- AWS Fault Injection Service ran over 44,000 experiments to ensure high availability, and AWS Countdown Premium is recommended for similar large-scale events.