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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) (18th)
Amazon AWS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
259
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 3.2%, down 4.1% compared to last year.
Amazon AWS, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 15.1% mindshare, up 12.8% since last year.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Acquia Cloud3.2%
Adobe Experience Manager11.9%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform9.1%
Other75.8%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS15.1%
Microsoft Azure8.6%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)7.8%
Other68.5%
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 ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Amazon AWS is a stable solution, it is far more stable than some others."
"Every aspect of the product is excellent."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"Support is really good."
 

Cons

"The automation tools need to improve."
"Going through the chats has left me a little disappointed. It's taking far too long, and I have to come back with questions."
"The customization could be improved."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"The security right now needs improvement."
"However a catch with the above mentioned tools (among others) and approaches is that to replicate your data (e.g. objects in a bucket) can involve other AWS S3 fees."
"It's expensive. It costs you an arm and a leg."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"As a startup business, it's very well priced, but if a number of transactions go up, clients have voiced that they are in a situation and feel a type of pressure and desire to move out of AWS."
"We pay for Amazon AWS annually."
"The licensing cost varies with the project involved."
"It's my understanding that our company is charged a few hundred dollars on a monthly basis."
"The pricing may vary and is often influenced by marketing strategies."
"Amazon AWS has pay-as-you-go options available."
"​AWS is much too expensive compared to current on-premises solution for this type of work."
"One of the best thing in Amazon AWS is you are billed for the service you use."
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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
8%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise119
 

Questions from the Community

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Can Acquia Cloud be used to migrate from another CMS?
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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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