Amazon AWS recognises DEXT outpaces Industry Benchmarks with 5–6x Faster Trade Execution

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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

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@Alok_Pandey This is great and being recognised by Amazon AWS is huge. But it also shows that Dhan totally depends on AWS for its DEXT and other systems. With everything that is going on with tariffs on India and internal stuff that is happening, what will happen if suddenly AWS isn’t accessible for Indian companies. What is your plan B for such situations?

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Hi @nitishbangera We host everything locally in India. We are well prepared for all situations, for example - today we are running operations from a disaster recovery site at same performance levels as always.

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To my little knowledge, if the whole solution is on AWS, mostly the DR site too would be hosted on AWS. Only the the zones would be different.

All majority cloud service providers like Azure, GCP are US based along with AWS (and many more tech giants too). Uncertainty will always be there as far as Tromp uncle is hallucinating.

If systems are hosted under the on-prem data centres, we are super safe (only wrt terrif war).

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@khulsat Great point.

@PravinJ When you say “Everything hosted locally in India”, is it AWS nodes in Indian zones or On-Prem solutions?

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You Said Earlier In A Post That We’ll Work On UI Simplification In Next Few Months, Did It Stopped Or You’ll Push Updates To Simplify Even Further @PravinJ

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@nitishbangera We do a mix of few things, but prefer to speak a little about it as we have to maintain our edge on technology. Competition in broking industry is super high, and we have many trying to sneak in on our tech stack and approach.

When contemplated very very much even fore talking about DEXT, as you would even see from @Alok_Pandey’s post. First we spoke about scale and infrastructure, and over 6 months later we spoke of DEXT for first time. Tech Architecture we shared in public domain only about 10 months after that.

We do lot of things in-house, we are considering putting up more details on how we run accurate and faster charts on Dhan for 200K+ concurrent users almost every day.

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@PravinJ Thank you for the explanation. I understand the need to maintain the edge on tech considering the competition. My question was mainly on the dependency of AWS and its repercussions due to the situations that are brewing in the global field. Anyway I got where Dhan stands and hope to read more detailed blogs on the Arch and the usage of cloud in the coming days.

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Sorry Community Members… Feature Request – Option to View Segregated P&L for Intraday Trades

Hi Team,

I wanted to highlight a challenge I (and many scalpers) face with the way intraday trades are currently displayed on the platform.

Right now, when I buy and sell the same script multiple times in a day, the app shows aggregated average buy/sell prices and combined P&L. This creates difficulty while monitoring my current trade because:

  1. Aggregated P&L mixes completed and current trades
  • Example: If I booked +₹4000 profit earlier and in my new trade I am at -₹400, the app shows total +₹3600.
  • For my own system, I keep a strict rule of -₹500 SL and +₹1000 target per trade, but due to the aggregated view, I have to do mental calculations each time to know my current trade’s P&L.
  1. Psychological traps
  • Seeing overall profit (e.g., +₹3600) makes it harder to cut the current trade at my intended -₹500 SL.
  • This often results in holding losers longer than I should, just because the overall number is still green.

Suggested Solution

It would be very helpful to have an option to toggle between “Aggregated View” and “Segregated View” in the Positions tab.

  • Aggregated View (default): Current format, cumulative per instrument.
  • Segregated View (requested): Once a trade is squared off, its P&L gets frozen in a completed row, and a fresh new row is created for the next entry in the same instrument.

This way, scalpers and intraday traders can monitor per-trade P&L in real time without confusion, while positional traders can still use aggregated mode.

Question for the Community

Has anyone else faced similar issues or lost more than intended because of aggregated P&L while scalping? I’d love to hear your thoughts and support for this feature request.

Thanks,

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Hey @MURUGAIYAN_SR, Welcome to MadeForTrade community.

Got it this is a really good suggestion having an option to switch between aggregated and segregated view in Positions would make tracking P&L much clearer. Passing this as feedback to the team.

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@t7support @Tushar11 DEXT T3 The Trading Terminal is now live with 40+ keyboard shortcuts, 30+ widgets, full customization and it is built on DEXT infra.

Check this out for more info and download links Introducing: DEXT T3 - The Trading Terminal | The Modern Day Terminal for Traders

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