Dear All,
We have been writing about our journey of building DEXT (Dhan Exchange Trading System) for nearly 2 years now, right from being one of the only few stock trading platforms to have its own proprietary trading engine to optimising the speed of execution to where it is now, and also sharing in public domain the technology and architecture behind DEXT.
Today, we are extremely proud that Amazon AWS has published an case study on Dhan, in particularly about our trade execution engine DEXT where they mention the following -
Dhan is a technology-driven stock trading platform in India, serving over 950,000 active users with trading and investing services. To address challenges faced by traders, such as managing multiple platforms and ensuring efficient trade execution, Dhan’s founders chose to develop DEXT (Dhan Exchange Trading System), an integrated platform with in-house order, risk, and execution management systems. To support the demands of India’s trading environment, including surges in activity at market open or on volatile days, Dhan adopted Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its low-latency and scalable infrastructure. By running DEXT on AWS, Dhan processes 95 percent of all its orders under 25 milliseconds. In 2024, the platform saw a 300 percent growth in active users and approximately 675 percent growth in revenue.
Read the Full Case Study by Amazon AWS here: Dhan’s Online Stock Trading Platform Outpaces Industry Benchmarks with 5–6x Faster Trade Execution on AWS
While we were growing and faced initial challenges with our increased volumes, we first publicly posted on updates on scaling technology and infrastructure in December 2023, here is the full post.
On DEXT, we first publicly spoke in May 2024 and also disclosed the trading engine, its performance and speed as well as response times., here is the full post.
We kept up the trend with posting its performance on the Budget Day of 2025, which as industry folks we recognised as one of the most volatile days for Trading, here is the full post.
And until recently, we wrote a full post mentioning the technology architecture behind DEXT for those who are interested, as well as the latest performance numbers.
We are thrilled by the recognition for DEXT by Amazon AWS and glad that they choose to write a case study on us.
As always, what @PravinJ keeps saying - We keep making Dhan better for you.
Thank you
Alok