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Acquia Cloud vs Amazon AWS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Acquia Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (20th)
Amazon AWS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
260
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd), PaaS Clouds (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Acquia Cloud and Amazon AWS aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Acquia Cloud is designed for Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) and holds a mindshare of 3.0%, down 3.9% compared to last year.
Amazon AWS, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 13.3% mindshare, down 16.0% since last year.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Acquia Cloud3.0%
Adobe Experience Manager11.1%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform9.5%
Other76.4%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS13.3%
Microsoft Azure8.4%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)6.4%
Other71.9%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user674091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Delivery Lead at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
It provides a consolidated platform to manage content for the content editors.
Hosting support is the most valuable feature. Acquia provides a standard for the support and the incident requests. Their knowledge of Drupal as a CMS has enabled us to focus on developing business outcomes rather than focusing on the IT operations. Acquia has provided a resilient hosting infrastructure that allows our people to focus on delivering value to our customers.
Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Acquia has provided a resilient hosting infrastructure that allows our people to focus on delivering value to our customers."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I like that all of the features are complimentary."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"Amazon AWS is a stable solution."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"It allows us to cheaply experiment with lots of different setups, evaluate prices and business ROI, and rollout solutions effectively."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
 

Cons

"The automation tools need to improve."
"Our use case is limited to virtual services and RPA development. We are not using it quite heavily, and there are not many issues or problems so far. However, it would be great if it could be integrated with more AI features and proactive monitoring. It could also have more automatic capacity expansion features. For example, when renting out some space, memory, or computing power, the service can have the capacity to expand by itself without being manually handled by us."
"With CloudSearch; the service finally autoscales but in excessive time."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"Like anything, failures happen every once in a while."
"It is very expensive, you have to be very cautious."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If I was going to compare the cost of Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure, they are approximately the same."
"I find that Amazon AWS is expensive."
"For the initial 12 months, the solution is reasonably priced. On enterprise license contracts where you negotiate, have been reasonable too."
"Amazon AWS is on the cheaper side, as their pricing is more competitive. There are no additional costs besides the license. However, Azure sells Microsoft licenses, so they have an advantage."
"For our infrastructure, the cost is approximately $25 per device, and you have to include the other tools that we have in the cloud, for a total of approximately $200,000 per year."
"The pricing of Amazon is higher than that of SalesForce."
"​AWS is much too expensive compared to current on-premises solution for this type of work."
"Be careful with your consumption, especially when you are testing things. Costs can creep up on you relatively fast, without even noticing."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
10%
University
10%
Retailer
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
 

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

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Amazon Web Services, AWS
 

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