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.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) – During Prime Day 2026, Amazon EBS, our high-performance block storage service, 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 percent 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 percent 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, between June 23 and June 26, 2026, DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests. DynamoDB maintained high availability while delivering single-digit millisecond responses and peaking at 192 million requests per second.

Amazon Aurora – On Prime Day, Amazon Aurora, a relational database management system (RDBMS) 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, a fully managed pub/sub messaging service for application-to-application and application-to-person communication, delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day during Prime Day 2026.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Amazon SQS, a fully managed message queuing service for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications, 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.

AWS 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 last year’s Prime Day.

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) – We ran over 44,000 AWS FIS experiments – more than six times what we conducted in 2025 – to help ensure Amazon.com remains highly available on Prime Day.

Prepare to scale
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I look forward to seeing what other records will be broken next year!

— Channy

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If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Amazon Bedrock over the past few days: GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI, giving you two new points on the intelligence-versus-efficiency curve, and Claude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic, the first of the Claude 5.5 family.

GPT-6 Sol is built for the demanding, recurring work of development and operations, while GPT-6 Luna makes focused, repeatable tasks practical at high volume, and both ship at significantly lower pricing than their GPT-5.6 predecessors. Claude Opus 5.5, meanwhile, does more with fewer tokens than Opus 5 and is tuned for agentic coding and long-running tasks. What I like about all three is that they push toward the same idea: match the model to the job instead of reaching for the biggest one every time. The other thread was observability catching up to this agentic world, including a launch I had the pleasure of writing about myself.

Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:

• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni – You can now observe your applications and AI agents together in a single, collaborative experience. Amazon CloudWatch Omni is built on OpenTelemetry, so your existing telemetry shows up with nothing to reconfigure, and your whole team reaches it through one URL with enterprise SSO — no console access required. It auto-discovers your services, maps dependencies, and brings AWS DevOps Agent into investigation sessions to correlate signals and trace root causes. There’s a companion post on the agent-observability side, a deeper dive on the AWS Cloud Operations blog on what observability for the AI era looks like, and the announcement on What’s New with the specifics. If you want the bigger picture, Matt Wood’s Wrong, not broken is a great read on why correctness now has to be measured at the level of the run.

• Enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge – Amazon EventBridge now offers an enhanced custom event bus purpose-built for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. You can now deploy a single centralized bus shared across every account in your organization through AWS RAM, with optional event ordering, a simplified Subscriber resource that bundles filtering, targets, and retries, content-based deduplication, and synchronous invocation for targets like AWS Lambda. A new ingress/egress pricing model replaces the compounding cross-account routing charges of multi-bus setups, and your existing buses keep working unchanged as “classic.”

• Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway – You can now front your LLM inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing layer that deploys as a single Amazon EKS managed add-on with zero application changes. Instead of round-robin load balancing, it routes on real-time inference signals — KV cache utilization, queue depth, prefix cache hits, predicted latency, and more — cutting first-token latency by up to 82% in mixed-hardware and bursty scenarios. It works with any OpenAI-compatible model server, including vLLM and SGLang.

• AI agent skills for AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES – You can now build and send messages by asking your AI coding agent in plain language. Amazon SES and AWS End User Messaging publish AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, giving your agent step-by-step, validated guidance for tasks like verifying a sending identity, sending a production email, or building a branded RCS agent with cards and buttons. The skills work with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro, so you can complete messaging workflows without hopping between docs and console screens.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS page.

Other AWS news
Here are some additional posts and resources that you might find interesting:

• Introducing Strands harness – The Strands Agents team released Strands harness, a fully assembled, general-purpose agent harness you can run locally or deploy anywhere, under Apache 2.0. It takes one line of Python or TypeScript to wire up your model of choice across Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or a local Ollama model, and it ships with sensible defaults for prompt caching and context management (truncating bulky tool results, compacting when the context window fills up, and keeping memory across runs). The team reports it costs about 28% less than comparable harnesses on the same models while holding accuracy steady.

• Announcing the new AWS Reimagine report on AI – The AWS Executive in Residence team spent nine months interviewing 154 leaders across 27 countries about what separates organizations that turn AI into value from those that don’t. The report is candid (including where AI hasn’t worked at Amazon), and the recurring insight is that once building gets fast, the bottleneck moves to deciding, funding, and governing the work. Well worth a read if you’re thinking about how your teams adopt AI in practice.

For a full list of AWS blog posts, be sure to keep an eye on the AWS Blogs page.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:

• AWS re:Invent – AWS re:Invent returns to Las Vegas from November 30 to December 4, and session times, locations, and speakers are live. Reserved seating opens October 6, so register now and be ready to claim your spot in chalk talks, workshops, and builders’ sessions.

• AWS Summits – With re:Invent on the horizon, the Summits are wrapping up for the year. The last stop is Dubai (September 30) at the Dubai World Trade Center, with 60+ sessions, an AWS Village, and hands-on workshops.

Join the AWS Builder Center to connect with builders, share solutions, and access content that supports your development. Browse here for upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— Daniel Abib

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AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest cloud conference in France, and the London Summit at the end of the month. We will have a small podcast recording studio where I will interview French and British customers to produce new episodes for the AWS Developers Podcast and le podcast 🎙 AWS ☁️ en 🇫🇷.

Register today!

But for now, let’s look at last week’s new announcements.

Last week’s launches
At KubeCon London, we introduced the EKS Community Add-Ons Catalog, making it simpler for Kubernetes users to enhance their Amazon EKS clusters with powerful open-source tools. This catalog streamlines the installation of essential add-ons like metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, prometheus-node-exporter, cert-manager, and external-dns. By integrating these community-driven add-ons directly into the Amazon EKS console and AWS command line interface (AWS CLI), customers can reduce operational complexity and accelerate deployment while maintaining flexibility and security. This launch reflects AWS’s commitment to the Kubernetes community, providing seamless access to trusted open-source solutions without the overhead of manual installation and maintenance.

Amazon Q Developer now integrates with Amazon OpenSearch Service to enhance operational analytics by enabling natural language exploration and AI-assisted data visualization. This integration simplifies the process of querying and visualizing operational data, reducing the learning curve associated with traditional query languages and tools. During incident responses, Amazon Q Developer offers contextual summaries and insights directly within the alerts interface, facilitating quicker analysis and resolution. This advancement allows engineers to focus more on innovation by streamlining troubleshooting processes and improving monitoring infrastructure.

Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs in both commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This enhancement allows REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, as well as custom domains, to handle requests from both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, facilitating a smoother transition to IPv6 and addressing IPv4 address scarcity. Additionally, AWS continues its commitment to IPv6 adoption with recent updates, including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introducing dual-stack public endpoints for seamless connections over IPv4 and IPv6 and AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) enabling customers to manage resource shares using IPv6 addresses. Amazon Security Lake customers can also now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses via new dual-stack endpoints to configure and manage the service. These advancements collectively ensure broader compatibility and future-proofing of network infrastructure.

​Amazon SES has introduced support for email attachments in its v2 APIs, enabling users to include files like PDFs and images directly in their emails without manually constructing MIME messages. This enhancement simplifies the process of sending rich email content and reduces implementation complexity. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) supports attachments in all AWS Regions where the service is available.

Amazon Neptune has updated its Service Level Agreement (SLA) to offer a 99.99% Monthly Uptime Percentage for Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph configurations, up from the previous 99.9%. This enhancement demonstrates the commitment AWS has to providing highly available and reliable graph database services for mission-critical applications. The improved SLA is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Neptune is offered.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS events
Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events.

AWS GenAI Lofts are collaborative spaces and immersive experiences that showcase AWS expertise in cloud computing and AI. They provide startups and developers with hands-on access to AI products and services, exclusive sessions with industry leaders, and valuable networking opportunities with investors and peers. Find a GenAI Loft location near you and don’t forget to register.

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events here.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— seb

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The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post.

You can now watch keynotes and sessions on the AWS Event YouTube channel. This year Andy Jassy, now President and CEO at Amazon, returned to re:Invent and shared some thoughts in these videos.

Drawing on experiences Amazon has had building distributed systems at massive scale, Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon, shared critical lessons and strategies he has learned for managing complex systems in his keynote.

Last week’s launches
Here are the launches that got my attention.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – A new generation of FPGA-powered instances (F2) is now available. In contrast to a purpose-built chip designed with a single function in mind and then hard-wired to implement it, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) can be programmed in the field, after it has been plugged in to a socket on a PC board. We’re also introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TiB and 8TiB of memory. U7i instances are ideal to run large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Graviton-based 8th generation instances now support bandwidth configurations for Amazon VPC and Amazon EBS.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails – We are reducing pricing by up to 85% to help you implement safeguards for your generative AI applications. Also, we’re adding multilingual capabilities with support for Spanish and French languages.

Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) – Now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience and announces the availability of Deterministic Easy DKIM (DEED), a new form of global identity which simplifies the use of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) management.

AWS CloudFormation – An enhanced version of the AWS Secrets Manager transform introducing automatic AWS Lambda upgrades.

Amazon Lex – Launches new multilingual streaming speech recognition models that enhance recognition accuracy through two specialized groupings: a European-based model (for Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, and Spanish) and a Asia Pacific-based model (for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese).

Amazon Connect – Now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices. In this way, you can be proactively notified as soon as there is a new message from an agent or chatbot, even when not actively chatting. You can now also configure holidays and other variances to your contact center hours of operation.

AWS Security Hub – Now supports automated security checks aligned to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1, a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for safely handling credit and debit card information.

AWS Resource Explorer – Supports 59 new resource types including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker.

Amazon SageMaker AI – Inference optimized Amazon EC2 G6e instances (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs) are now available on Amazon SageMaker.

Amazon Redshift – Now supports automatically and incrementally refreshable materialized views on tables in a zero-ETL integration. Previously, in this case, you had to run a full refresh.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – Now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analytics capability that provides real-time visibility into your logs and makes it easier to develop and troubleshoot applications.

Other AWS news
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting:

Build a managed transactional data lake with Amazon S3 Tables – Just introduced at re:Invent 2024, Amazon S3 Tables is the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. This post on the AWS Storage Blog provides an overview of S3 Tables and an example of how to build a transactional data lake with S3 Tables using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR.

Introducing Cross-Region Connectivity for AWS PrivateLink – More information on this recent launch that can be used to share and access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint services across different AWS Regions.

Marc Brooker, VP/Distinguished Engineer at AWS, shared on his personal blog a few posts about what Amazon Aurora DSQL is, how it works, and how to make the best use of it:

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— Danilo

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