AWS Graviton Powered Nearly Half of Amazon's Prime Day Compute
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Prime Day 2026 ran June 23–26 with millions of deals across 35+ categories, and AWS has published the numbers behind it. Graviton handled up to 49% of Amazon.com's EC2 compute, EBS peaked at 24.8 trillion I/O operations, Lambda ran 2.3 trillion daily invocations, and DynamoDB processed 59 trillion requests while peaking at 192 million per second.
During Amazon Prime Day 2026, AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of the Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon.com.
- xnx
Prime Day is a great day to encourage people to use tools like CamelCamelCamel or Keepa to see if the "deals" are actually deals.
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For me, Prime Day is not a time for good deals, but a time for my packages to be delayed. I hope you won’t need anything in a hurry for a week after it.
- georgemcbay
Amazon certainly puts up some impressive numbers.
For example, Amazon warehouse workers experience serious injury rates that are roughly 2 times the industry average!
~6.5-6.7 per 100 workers at Amazon compared to ~3.2-3.8 per 100 workers for the overall industry.