Gaining Microsecond Advantage: How Amazon EC2’s Precision Timekeeping Empowers Flow Traders
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The article discusses how Flow Traders, a leading global liquidity provider, leveraged the improved time synchronization capabilities of Amazon EC2 instances to gain a competitive edge in high-frequency trading (HFT).
Specifically, the article covers:
- The importance of precise time measurement in HFT and the challenges of achieving nanosecond-level accuracy on cloud infrastructure
- How Flow Traders tested the Amazon Time Sync Service and the Amazon EC2 Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver on different Amazon EC2 instances
- The architecture and use cases for leveraging the improved time synchronization across AWS resources and on-premises infrastructure
- The benefits of achieving microsecond-accurate clocks, including improved trading application performance, decision-making capabilities, and compliance with regulations like MiFID II
- Flow Traders' role as a pioneer in cloud-based low-latency trading and their collaboration with AWS to highlight the impact of the Amazon Time Sync Service
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