Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs INAP

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.

Internap Corporation is an Internet infrastructure provider that offers cloud hosting, colocation, Internet Protocol services, data center and Content Delivery Network services. Internap has approximately 13,000 customers ranging from startup to enterprise in the U.S. and abroad and approximately 700 employees. Its customers are companies that require high-performance Internet services for business-critical applications, such as advertising technology, online analytics, big data and ecommerce. Internap has a foundation in the online retail, online gaming, SaaS, financial and business services industries.