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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
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 3.2%, 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."
"In the 4 years that we have been using IaaS services from Amazon, we have not had any issues."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted, and I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"So far, the stability is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
 

Cons

"The automation tools need to improve."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"I would like to see Lambda (code storage management), which means being able to increase our code storage limit through support."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We are happy with the pricing."
"The solution is on a subscription-based model, and it is pay-as-you-go. The price could be cheaper."
"The price tends to be higher, but that is a usual case when prioritizing reliable backup solutions for servers and other infrastructure."
"This is not an expensive product but it would be an improvement if the price were cheaper."
"The pricing of Amazon AWS is high compared to any other cloud provider."
"When we shifted the load to AWS we paid a high cost as the mail stores were hosted on EBS. The storage cost drastically reduced after moving to S3."
"A few of our customers pay for it yearly and monthly. Sometimes, when it's related to the data, the pricing seems to be high. It could be cheaper on a transactional basis."
"The price of the Virtual Desktop service from Amazon AWS could improve, it is more expensive than competitors. The pricing model we are using is pay-as-you-go. You only pay for what 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%
Retailer
8%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
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 Enterprise120
 

Questions from the Community

What is the structure of Acquia Cloud DXP?
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Do you think Acquia Cloud is expensive?
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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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