Comparison of the Internap and Amazon Cloudfront CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Internap and Amazon Cloudfront for POP locations, pricing and features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these Content Delivery Networks.

POP locations	Internap	Amazon Cloudfront
POPs in North-America	Not Available	14US edge locations are in Ashburn, VA; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles, CA (2); Miami, FL; New York, NY (2); Newark, NJ; Palo Alto, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA, South Bend, IN and St. Louis, MO
POPs in Europe	Not Available	7European edge locations are in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan.
POPs in Asia (not China)	Not Available	5Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul.
POPs in China	Not Available	0
POPs in Australia	Not Available	1Sydney
POPs in South-America	Not Available	1Sao Paulo.
POPs in Middle-East	Not Available	0
POPs in Africa	Not Available	0

A POP is a Point Of Presence, an access point to the Internet. It is a physical, strategically placed location that houses multiple CDN servers.

Pricing	Internap	Amazon Cloudfront
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$0.12 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	58%$0.19 / GB for Hong Kong & Singapore and $0.201 / GB for Japan
Storage	Yes, you pay for storage	FreeS3 storage charges may apply for S3 backed distributions.
Resellers	Turbobytes

Note: custom price plans are very common in the CDN market, especially for large volume customers. We recommend you always talk to the CDN provider about your needs and requirements and work with them to get a best-fit deal.

Features & Support	Internap	Amazon Cloudfront
Origin-Pull		Origin pull is called "Custom Origin" when creating a new Cloudfront distribution.
Push (upload to CDN servers)	Files can be uploaded to the CDN POPs via FTP, the control panel and rsync.	To use push, set the Cloudfront distribution to use "Amazon S3 Origin" as the source.
Purge	Both MediaConsole (the Internap online control panel) and the API support single file, multiple file (folder), and wildcard purge. The Cache Purge Manager tool built into MediaConsole allows ad hoc or scheduled purges.	Cloudfront charges $0.005 per file purged. 1,000 purges are free per month.
Purge All	Can be done via the online control panel and API.
Gzip	Only if origin server does GzipGzip compression reduces the file size (bytes) of text-based files like HTML, CSS and JavaScript by approximately 70%. It's a well-known web performance best practice to turn on Gzip on the server.	Only if origin server does Gzip
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers	Internap offers lots of possibilities for this.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs		There is a limit of 10 CNAMEs per distribution.
HTTPS	Internap offers a free, shared wildcard certificate (no CNAME) and the option to upload your certificate, have a custom CNAME at $200/month.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs		Access logs can be optionally written to a S3 bucket.
API
Support	Internap operates dual Network Operating Centers for geographic diversity, and staff the NOC with front line engineering resources who have the skills and tools to resolve network issues on the first call. The NOC is available 24/7/365 by phone, email, and chat. Internap received a Stevie® Award for 'Best Customer Service Department' of the Year at the 2011 American Business Awards.	By default aws only provides a forum for community support. Premium support is available at extra charges.

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