All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Summary
- Amazon Prime Day 2026 occurred exclusively for Prime members from June 23–26, 2026, featuring millions of deals across more than 35 categories.
- AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of the Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com during the event.
- Amazon EBS peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations while moving over an exabyte of data daily.
- AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day.
- Amazon ECS launched an average of 158.3 million tasks per day on AWS Fargate, a 47.7 percent increase from the previous year.
- Amazon CloudFront delivered over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests during the global week, representing a 5 percent increase compared to Prime Day 2025.
- Amazon DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests between June 23 and June 26, 2026, peaking at 192 million requests per second.
- Amazon Aurora stored 5,491 terabytes of data, transferred 1,194 terabytes of data, and processed hundreds of billions of transactions.
- Amazon ElastiCache peaked at serving over 2.3 quadrillion daily requests and 2.1 trillion requests in a minute.
- 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 API activity events in four days, a 44% increase over Prime Day 2025.
- 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 from the prior year.
- AWS Fault Injection Service ran over 44,000 experiments, more than six times the number conducted in 2025.
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics […]
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