Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs NETSCOUT

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.

NETSCOUT Systems, Inc. is a provider of integrated computer network performance management products. NETSCOUT products include packet Sniffer and nGenius packet flow recorder. It is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has approximately 800 employees. NETSCOUT serves the enterprise community, government agencies and telecommunications service providers. At various times NETSCOUT acquired the companies Network General and Fidelia Technology.