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Acquia Cloud vs Amazon AWS comparison

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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) (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."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"There are so many references that I can refer to, and their technical support is great."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"Scalability is not a problem; we are currently extending our use of Amazon AWS and have acquired a partnership with them, creating a cloud department for which we will offer Amazon Web Services."
"The solution works very quickly compared to the SQL Server on Tran, and we can access it from anywhere."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
 

Cons

"The automation tools need to improve."
"Technical support could be improved, they could be better."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"AWS is much too expensive compared to current on-premises solution for this type of work. AWS IaaS is a very generic service, which is extremely overpriced."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is decently priced. The competition is also bringing its own cloud offerings, such as from Oracle."
"When you compare Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure, the pricing of both is almost the same. There are some instances when one is cheaper than the other in one area but it is difficult to pinpoint which one is cheaper because it depends upon a lot of factors, such as the use case. However, the overall price of both solutions could be reduced."
"The pricing depends on the workload. For example, if your workload involves Windows technologies, AWS may not be the most cost-effective option. In that case, you might be better off with Azure."
"We are currently paying for the solution on an annual basis."
"The tool’s pricing is reasonable."
"We are reducing costs year-over-year."
"AWS is cost-effective because it saves time. Faster deployments and testing make it very valuable."
"This is not an expensive product but it would be an improvement if the price were cheaper."
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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
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing 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

What is the structure of Acquia Cloud DXP?
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Can Acquia Cloud be used to migrate from another CMS?
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Do you think Acquia Cloud is expensive?
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Also Known As

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Amazon Web Services, AWS
 

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