Acquia & AWS
Acquia Cloud applications run on a Drupal-optimized platform hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. Acquia uses AWS Enterprise Support in order to optimize its cloud architecture and provide the best possible experience for its customers.
Why Customers choose Acquia Built on AWS
While building it yourself or self-hosting, might seem like the more cost efficient option in the short term, those projects often turn out to be a disaster. The “products” that come out of DIY efforts aren’t scalable, and they end up costing more time and energy to update and maintain in the long run.
Acquia's platform built on AWS provides:
- Increased time-to-market to configure and optimize your stack
- Turn-key, fully-managed Drupal Platform-as-a-Service
- API-first integration of your own development and marketing tools
- Centralized User Experience to manage and monitor digital properties
- Security & Compliance audits taken care of, including PCI, HIPAA, and Fedramp compliance
- Maintenance, patches, security updates for the entire platform, including Drupal
- Ability to add VPC, CDN, WAF, On-demand environments
- Selection and implementation of solutions for SEIM, firewall, virus, monitoring, and more already taken care of
- State-of-the-Art Support & Operations
- High-availability platform and 99.95% uptime SLA
Why Government Agencies Around the World Choose Acquia
Deliver digital services that meet the unique standards required by the public sector, without sacrificing the speed and usability standards set by the private sector. All with a total cost of ownership that's packed full of savings.
Certified Compliance
Compliance backed by certifications like FedRAMP provide the security agencies need to protect their residents and constituents online.
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Easy to Use and Scale
Multi-site solutions allow developers to focus their time on building and expanding the reach of your digital enterprise to reach constituents and residents wherever they are.
Efficient Cost of Ownership
Remove barriers to serving your residents and constituents quickly with tools that allow your central IT teams to efficiently manage their workflows and to deliver new sites that reach new audiences for all of the departments they support.
AWS HIGHLIGHTS ACQUIA
Acquia holds the AWS Digital Customer Experience (DCX) Competency which highlights the technology partners that deliver robust digital experience solutions to its clients while following best practices for building the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications.
Acquia & AWS: Delivering on Digital Transformation
Amazon Web Services' Terry Wise talks about how Acquia and AWS combine powerful content management solutions with a scalable, secure, performant infrastructure to help customers embrace digital transformation.
Acquia Builds Compelling Customer Experiences Using AWS Support
Acquia is a cloud platform for building, managing, and optimizing digital experiences. Acquia uses AWS in a variety of ways, such as managing and provisioning the IT infrastructure necessary to host its customers’ websites and web applications. Acquia uses AWS Enterprise Support to learn about and begin using new AWS services in order to optimize its cloud architecture and provide the best possible experience for its customers.
Compelling Customer Experiences
