The Best Developer Experience
Acquia has easy-to-use and flexible tools to build powerful Drupal applications on the Acquia Cloud platform, created by developers for developers.
Get the Most out of Drupal
Spend time innovating rather than tooling your applications. We provide APIs, command line tools, integrations, and GUIs to build, test, and optimize powerful Drupal applications. With Acquia, there's no project too large for our infrastructure.
Starting a small project or personal website? Learn more about Acquia Cloud Professional, a self-service Drupal hosting environment built for small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to start their website themselves.
Highlighted Features
Our Tools Help You Get Started Faster
Get a headstart on building your Drupal application by using our development tools. Lightning, Dev Desktop, and BLT improve your workflow and accelerate your development.
You’re in Control, When You Want to Be
Cloud API, direct SSH access, Cloud Hooks, and Live Development make building your digital experience simple without sacrificing freedom, flexibility, or control. Our API-first platform lets you automate any phase of the development workflow.
Develop and Deliver with Confidence
Take the toil out of the software delivery cycle with built-in continuous integration and deployment tools like Acquia Pipelines that seamlessly integrates with your development workflow.
Make Data-Driven Decisions
We provide performance metrics, uptime alerts, security and Drupal application insights, and comprehensive logging you need to monitor and optimize your applications.
Build Decoupled Drupal Apps on a Single Platform
Use our Decoupled Drupal starter kit to build your back-end application and server side rendered front-end application on the same platform with our Node.js offering. We’ve got you covered.
We Have the Most Secure and Compliant Platform
We support strict compliance programs such as FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI, to name a few. You can also internally manage your teams at scale with advanced teams and permissions capabilities. The Acquia Cloud platform is secure by design.
We Are the Drupal Experts, and We're Devoted to Your Success
You don’t just get a platform, you get the most knowledgeable Drupal experts and the tools to maximize your developer experience. We provide expert Drupal application support, helping you to develop and even debug your custom Drupal code. We’ve optimized the Cloud stack for you.
We’ve used our expertise to build the fastest and most secure Drupal platform and tools. Applications hosted on Acquia Cloud benefit from having the right tools and the right configuration available out of the box.
Stay in Control Without Sacrificing Flexibility
Our tools make development simple without sacrificing freedom and flexibility. Acquia’s Cloud API and Cloud Hooks let you automate your development workflow. If you can click it, you can script it. Direct SSH access keeps you in complete control of developing and debugging.
Need to perform a quick hotfix? Acquia Cloud allows for Live Development right on our servers without the hassle of reproducing the issue locally. Run what you want when you want with our completely customizable Drupal Cron Jobs. Add as many databases to your application as you’d like and scale your application by leveraging Drupal’s multisite functionality.
Acquia Vs. Pantheon
| Features | Acquia | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple database support | ||
| Multiple sites per application | ||
| SSH access & on server development | ||
| GUI-based Windows & Mac compatible local LAMP stack | ||
| Low Code Site Building | ||
| Node.js support | ||
| Built-in continuous integration | ||
| Log streaming | ||
| HIPAA, SOC 1, FISMA, FedRAMP compliance | ||
| Drupal application support | ||
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