Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Imperva

Amazon Web Services, a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing-capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.

Imperva is a provider of cyber and data security products. Imperva is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. Imperva has received a total of $53.7M in venture capital funding, including over $20M in its Series D round in April 2008. Imperva's investors include Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, USVP and Venrock. Imperva's belief is that an organization's most important asset today is datacustomer, financial and intellectual property, each of which need to be protected from insiders and hackers. To protect data, Imperva claims to have built a data security suite to protect both structured and unstructured data: