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 an annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), here are the services and chart-topping metrics from AWS that made the shopping experience possible.
Prime Day 2026 – All the Numbers
As always, Prime Day was powered by AWS. Here are some of the most notable metrics:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Graviton – During Amazon Prime Day 2026, AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of the Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) – During Prime Day 2026, Amazon EBS peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations, moving over an exabyte of data daily.
AWS Lambda – AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day during Prime Day 2026.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Fargate – During Prime Day 2026, Amazon ECS launched an average of 158.3 million tasks per day on AWS Fargate, representing a 47.7% increase from the previous year’s Prime Day average.
Amazon CloudFront – Amazon CloudFront delivered over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests during the global week of Prime Day 2026, a 5% increase in total requests compared to Prime Day 2025.
Amazon DynamoDB – Amazon DynamoDB, a serverless, fully managed, distributed NoSQL database, powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties and systems including Alexa, the Amazon.com sites, and all Amazon fulfillment centers. Over the course of Prime Day 2026, DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests, maintained high availability with single-digit millisecond responses, and peaked at 192 million requests per second.
Amazon Aurora – Amazon Aurora, a relational database management system built for high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL, processed hundreds of billions of transactions, stored 5,491 terabytes of data, and transferred 1,194 terabytes of data.
Amazon ElastiCache – During Prime Day, Amazon ElastiCache peaked at serving over 2.3 quadrillion daily requests and 2.1 trillion requests in a minute.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a fully managed serverless data streaming service, processed a peak of 988 million records per second during Prime Day 2026.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Amazon SNS delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day during Prime Day 2026.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Amazon SQS received a peak of 213 million messages per second during Prime Day 2026.
AWS CloudTrail – AWS CloudTrail processes billions of API activity events per day for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. During Prime Day 2026, that volume surged to 3.6 trillion events in just four days, a 44% increase over Prime Day 2025.
Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon CloudWatch processed over 2.15 quadrillion metric observations per day during Prime Day 2026.
Amazon GuardDuty – During Prime Day 2026, Amazon GuardDuty monitored an average of 14.08 trillion log events per hour, a 59% increase from Prime Day 2025.
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) – AWS ran over 44,000 FIS experiments — more than six times the number conducted in 2025 — to help ensure Amazon.com remained highly available throughout Prime Day.
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The scale achieved during Prime Day 2026 reflects continued year-over-year growth across every major AWS service, setting a new benchmark for what cloud infrastructure can deliver under peak global demand.
