Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) is the fastest transatlantic cloud service, with double the speed across the ocean than other cloud providers.
The Cloud Spectator research compared the provider with Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure, testing network throughput and latency between Europe and USA and between providers’ European data centres.
The report found Interoute VDC delivered 96% better throughput than Amazon AWS, 141% better than Rackspace, and 195% better than Microsoft Azure at 1.1 Gbit/s.
The company also registered the lowest latency between its London and New York data centres, according to analysts.
Interoute VDC achieved 1.3 Gbit/s throughput between its London and Amsterdam hubs, which was found to be 52% better than Amazon AWS (Dublin – Frankfurt) and 73% better than Microsoft Azure (Dublin – Amsterdam).
Latency between its European data centres was six milliseconds, over three times better than the inter-data centre latency of AWS and Azure.
Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, said: "Businesses looking to grow between Europe and US should definitely be looking at the importance of these [throughput and latency] network characteristics for their ability to shift workloads into the cloud."
Danny Gee, Senior Analyst at Cloud Spectator said: "Our study revealed that for a trans-Atlantic connection between cloud data centres, Interoute provided the highest throughput and lowest latency out of AWS, Rackspace and Azure.
Interoute also had the higher network throughput and lowest latency in European testing compared to Azure and AWS (Rackspace was excluded, having only one location in Europe), making it a good option for users operating servers within this region."
