Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Verisign

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.

Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the.com,.net, and.name generic top-level domains and the.cc and.tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the.jobs,.gov, and.edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, Distributed Denial of Service mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.