All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Amazon released performance metrics for Prime Day 2026, highlighting the massive scale of AWS infrastructure support. The event saw trillions of requests across services like DynamoDB, Lambda, and EC2.
Why it matters
These metrics provide insight into the massive cloud computing capacity required to support global e-commerce events.
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 from AWS that made your amazing shopping experience possible.
Prime Day 2026 – all the numbers As always, Prime Day was powered by AWS. Here are some of the most interesting and/or mind-blowing 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.
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