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Testing the Amazon Time Sync NTP Service with Python

Jim Lawless
I’d just read a new article describing Amazon’s new publicly available NTP service (Amazon Time Sync). You can read the article here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-time-sync-internet-public-ntp-service/ I thought I’d give it a try with a Python script. I first needed to add ntplib to my local Python libraries: pip install ntplib Then, I put together this short script (amazontime.py): import ntplib from time import ctime ntp = ntplib.NTPClient() response = ntp.request("time.aws.com") print(ctime(response.tx_time)) Here’s the invocation and the output: