DynamoDB peaked at 192 million requests a second, Lambda ran 2.3 trillion invocations a day, ECS and Fargate ran 158 million tasks a day, Graviton powered 49% of Amazon.com's EC2 compute and Amazon ran more than 44,000 fault-injection experiments beforehand. What those numbers say for teams a millionth of the size.
From the AWS News Blog weekly roundup of October 13, 2026.
Graviton is the default, not the experiment. If half of Amazon.com runs on it, the compatibility question for most workloads has been answered. Check yours.
Resilience is rehearsed. Forty-four thousand fault-injection experiments is not a number a small team needs, but one game day before your biggest week is.
Containers grew fastest. ECS and Fargate task volume rose by nearly half in a year. Managed container platforms are where new workloads are landing.
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