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Acquia Cloud vs Amazon AWS comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Acquia Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (10th)
Amazon AWS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
256
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 4.3%, down 4.6% compared to last year.
Amazon AWS, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 13.5% mindshare, down 21.9% since last year.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user674091 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
HarishMahanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable cloud service enhances ERP management with advanced security features
I use Amazon AWS for ERP implementation. My responsibility is to integrate our application into the AWS cloud and provide AI solutions to the infrastructure AWS is stable and has provided a reliable infrastructure for my organization. AWS offers add-on services such as security and automated…
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is the structure of Acquia Cloud DXP?
Unlike many digital experience platforms, Acquia Cloud Platform actually separates its two main actions and their many features so it's easier for users. Maybe you were browsing their site and got...
Can Acquia Cloud be used to migrate from another CMS?
I've been actually looking for an answer to this question, as my organization has been using another CMS and wants to explore the option of migrating to Acquia because it offers much more features ...
Do you think Acquia Cloud is expensive?
So the price of different Acquia Cloud services doesn't really differ that much based on locations, though, of course, it's cheapest in the US. But my opinion on the matter is, the personal and the...
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Also Known As

No data available
Amazon Web Services, AWS
 

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Sample Customers

Weather.com, Princess Cruises, City of LA, Lush
Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
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