Amazon Time Sync Service introduces support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types—spanning 12 instance families—in all commercial regions. Built on Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, microsecond-accurate time and nanosecond-precision hardware timestamps leverage the reference clocks running in the Nitro System directly, enabling customers to easily order application events, measure 1-way network latency, and increase distributed application transaction speed. The newly supported families include eight Gen8 families (C8a, C8i, C8i-flex,