Performance is often overlooked when evaluating cloud hosting providers, but it is critical for ensuring optimal fit with your business needs. Virtual machine (VM) performance can be challenging to assess because it can vary drastically across vendors, instance sizes and price, as well as in terms of a particular application’s unique requirements. This benchmark analysis examines the relative performance of major VM components including virtual cores, memory, block storage, and internal network for Internap AgileCLOUD and Amazon Web Services (AWS) ECS/EBS.