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DynamoDB Peaked at 192 Million Requests per Second: The Numbers Behind Prime Day 2026 on AWS

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Hi, it's Shii-chan! The yearly numbers on how AWS powered Prime Day are out, and they're huge again!

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What was announced?

This is the AWS Blog post "All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS". Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23-26, 2026, with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. The post is an annual tradition summarizing how much work AWS services did behind the scenes.

Why it matters

Real numbers from a huge event show the true scale of these services, and they can be a handy reference when you design your own systems.

What changes

This isn't a feature launch but a look at real-world results. Seeing how big these services run makes it a fun read!

Dive Deep

Here are the numbers from the original post, by category.

Compute and storage:

  • AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of Amazon EC2 compute usage
  • Amazon EBS peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations daily, moving an exabyte of data
  • AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations daily
  • Amazon ECS launched an average of 158.3 million Fargate tasks daily (47.7% more than last year)

Networking and delivery:

  • Amazon CloudFront delivered over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests (5% more than 2025)
  • Amazon CloudWatch processed over 2.15 quadrillion metric observations daily

Databases:

  • Amazon DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests, peaking at 192 million requests per second
  • Amazon Aurora handled hundreds of billions of transactions with 5,491 terabytes of stored data
  • Amazon ElastiCache served over 2.3 quadrillion requests daily

Streaming and messaging:

  • Kinesis Data Streams peaked at 988 million records per second
  • Amazon SNS delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day
  • Amazon SQS received 213 million messages per second at peak

Security and monitoring:

  • AWS CloudTrail processed 3.6 trillion API events over four days (44% more)
  • Amazon GuardDuty monitored 14.08 trillion log events hourly (59% more)
  • AWS FIS ran over 44,000 experiments (6x 2025)

Wrap-up

  • Prime Day 2026 ran June 23-26 across more than 35 categories
  • DynamoDB peaked at 192 million requests per second
  • Fargate tasks grew 47.7% year over year, and FIS experiments grew 6x
  • Graviton powered up to 49% of EC2 compute usage

Great for anyone curious about cloud scale and real-world chaos engineering!

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