AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the Numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and More (October 13, 2026)
AWS, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
AWS's weekly roundup covers Prime Day 2026 infrastructure metrics, Claude Haiku 5.5 on Bedrock and Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic.
The AWS News Blog weekly roundup for October 13, 2026 leads with the Prime Day 2026 metrics, including Amazon ElastiCache peaking at 2.3 quadrillion daily requests and DynamoDB processing tens of trillions of calls.
It notes that Claude Haiku 5.5 arrived on Amazon Bedrock at roughly 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic made voice agents faster, and Strands Box added boundaries around what agents are allowed to do.
The post then lists the week's other AWS launches and news.