This summarizes how AWS powered Amazon Prime Day 2026 and the concrete infrastructure metrics that kept the shopping event available, fast, and secure. Multiple AWS services handled unprecedented traffic: compute ran heavily on EC2 with Graviton supplying up to 49% of Amazon.com’s EC2 capacity, serverless Lambda handled about 2.3 trillion invocations per day, and container workloads averaged 158.3 million ECS tasks per day on Fargate (a 47.7% year-over-year rise). Content and delivery scaled globally via CloudFront (over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests for the week), while databases and caches sustained extreme load - DynamoDB processed roughly 59 trillion requests across June 23-26 with peaks of 192 million req/s, Aurora ran hundreds of billions of transactions storing ~5,491 TB, and ElastiCache served trillions to quadrillions of requests.
Observability, streaming, messaging, and resilience also scaled dramatically: CloudWatch handled about 2.15 quadrillion metric observations per day, CloudTrail logged 3.6 trillion API events across four days (up 44% vs. the prior year), GuardDuty monitored ~14.08 trillion log events per hour (up 59%), Kinesis peaked at 988 million records/sec, SNS delivered ~5 trillion messages in a single day, and SQS peaked at 213 million messages/sec. Operational readiness included over 44,000 Fault Injection Service experiments (6x 2025), and AWS offered Countdown Premium to help other organizations prepare for similar high‑traffic events.
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