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AWS reports Prime Day peaks of 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations per day

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AWS says Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day, EBS peaked at 24.8 trillion I/O operations, and Graviton powered up to 49% of EC2 compute used by Amazon.com. These production figures offer useful scale context for capacity and infrastructure planning.

What

- Amazon Prime Day 2026 ran June 23–26, with AWS services powering the shopping event.

How

- DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests and peaked at 192 million requests per second during the four-day event.

Why it matters

- AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day, illustrating the operational scale these distributed services supported.

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