DIY ENTERPRISE DRUPAL IS COSTING YOUMORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
Acquia’s Drupal Cloud delivers everything you love about DIY hosting — and nothing you hate. Most companies save upwards of 40%, deliver projects faster and do better work - let's see how much you can save.
MOVE FAST AND GET MORE WITH LESS RISK
If you’re doing Drupal without us, it’s a total waste of your time and money.
- Support and administration from the #1 contributor to Drupal
- Fully managed platform security
- Drupal development tools
- Highly available: 99.95% uptime SLA
- Dynamically scaling infrastructure
Still doing DIY? Why? We’ll show you why now is the time to stop living in the past. And how to launch yourself into the future.
WE'RE THE INDUSTRY'S LEADING DRUPAL EXPERT
(PROBABLY BECAUSE OUR FOUNDER INVENTED IT)
Get built-in development, testing, and optimization tools developed for Drupal, including a low-code site building tool.
The Only Platform to offer a D7 to D9 migration tool
Speed up your Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 migrations by up to 50%. Leverage an intuitive UI and comprehensive migration set-up built by Acquia’s Drupal experts.
Available and ready to help, 24/7/365
Don't let your best day (unexpected traffic spike) become your worst day (unexpected downtime). Acquia is highly available, fully managed, backed by a 99.95% uptime SLA, and supported by experts.
Site delivery, turbocharged
Acquia is the only cloud platform built specifically for Drupal. Whether you have one extremely large site to host and manage, or 3,000 smaller sites, Acquia has done it.
No surprise costs, sneaky fees, or other shenanigans
You’ll get everything you need to build Drupal applications, including low-code solutions, a built-in CDN, application performance management (APM), and more. All fully supported and maintained, all for one low cost.
DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, OUR CLIENTS JUST LOVE TO TALK ABOUT US
We believe Acquia is a leading enterprise-grade platform for creating Drupal digital experiences and we would recommend their Drupal cloud based on proven results with our joint customers. Acquia extends the value of AWS enabling their customers to innovate and get to market faster without risking overspending.
Saved $4.7M over 5 years
“We wanted to find a better web publishing platform because the existing one limited what we could do. At the same time, infrastructure was a big factor. We were paying a lot for servers, licensing, and maintenance, and needed to find a way to reduce those costs.”
— Nikhil Deshpande,
Director of GeorgiaGov Interactive
MIGRATED 300+ SITES IN 7 WEEKS
“The thing I’m most excited is having my environment in the cloud...when we have operational issues with the platform, we can come to Acquia. I also look forward to the automation and the ease of site management on Site Factory. We have 300-400 sites to move and that’s only going to grow.”
— Andy Smith
Associate Director, Web Development & Operations, George Washington University
ELIMINATED HOURS OF MAINTENANCE PER WEEK
"It can take months to ensure security and compliance for your Drupal application and infrastructure. Leveraging Acquia’s Cloud Platform, allows us to get even our most security conscious customers up and running fast and eliminates hours a week that would have been spent maintaining security and compliance for their digital experiences."
— Ken Fang,
President of Mobomo
Speed to market? More like crawl to market
DIY is holding you back. You might spend days setting up your development environment - installing databases, upgrading webservers, configuring debugging tools, and setting up CI/CD integrations. With Acquia Drupal Cloud’s built-in developer tools, workflows, and fully managed platform, that’s all history.
Plus, our low-code solution means marketers can make front-end changes - like adding new content, layouts, pages, and even sites - without pestering developers.
Stop taxing your own resources
Guaranteed availability shouldn’t mean your team has to spend time troubleshooting, instead of building. With Acquia, you’ll get 24/7 support from hard-core Drupal experts, and a 99.95% uptime guarantee. And remember - only Acquia provides application support to every enterprise cloud platform customer.
(Note: Support not available to Acquia Cloud Professional or Acquia Cloud Free customers.)
Security and compliance aren’t just nice to have
Protecting your data from evolving risk is more critical than ever. But maintaining your own site security is time consuming and complex. Acquia is the only platform built for Drupal that meets FedRAMP compliance standards - the highest standards out there today. Our highly secure platform is loaded with robust security features. So you save time and money, and can focus on your real job.
Why are you ripping yourself off? Ditch DIY and get smart with Acquia
Hardware, software, tooling, licensing, maintenance - the costs of that “money-saving” DIY approach sure do add up fast. Acquia’s Drupal Cloud pricing is simple, and based on real value. No more servers to stress about, no more surprise expenses.
| MANAGERIAL CONSIDERATIONS & STAFFING | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Team of cloud experts to architect your platform
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Yes
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Yes
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Three fully trained security teams dedicated to securing the platform and implementing best-practices
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Yes
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No
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Expert Drupal support available 24/7/365
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Yes
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No
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Team training (including yearly training on security best practices)
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Yes
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No
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Simple, value-based pricing
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Yes
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No
|
| DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS & SERVICES | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Low-code; Drupal site builder included
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Yes
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No
|
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Separate development, staging, and production environments
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Yes
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No
|
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Automated code deployment across environments controlled by a drag-and-drop interface
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Yes
|
No
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Built in code security and performance quality testing
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Yes
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No
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Build API to integrate your development platform with external systems
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Yes
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No
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Code tests automatically run when you push code from development to staging environments to ensure code quality
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Yes
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No
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Integration between development platform and third-party services (i.e. Github)
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Yes
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No
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Automated synching between file systems and databases across all environments (Click and Drag UI)
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Yes
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No
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Ready-to-use development environments deployed within minutes without installing any extra software (i.e. Cloud IDEs)
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Yes
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No
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Built-in critical system health monitoring (99.95% SLA)
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Yes
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No
|
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Built in infrastructure health insights (Stack Metrics)
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Yes
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No
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Built-in log streaming for advanced debugging
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Yes
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No
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Built-in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (New Relic Pro AMP)
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Yes
|
No
|
| FULLY MANAGED, SCALABLE CLOUD PLATFORM | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Fully configured and maintained operating system (OS)
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Yes
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No
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Fully configured and maintained storage
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Yes
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No
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Fully configured and maintained database servers
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Yes
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No
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Fully configured and maintained persistent network file system with built-in replication and redundancy
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Yes
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No
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Fully configured and maintained web servers (including Apache, PHP, and Drupal Application)
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Yes
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No
|
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Fully automated server deployment to accommodate increasing traffic demands
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Yes
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No
|
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Reverse proxy caching with Varnish
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Yes
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No
|
|
Fully configured and managed load balancing servers
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Yes
|
No
|
|
Built-in CDN for optimal performance
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Yes
|
No
|
|
Highly available across entire stack
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Yes
|
No
|
|
LAMP stack availability monitoring
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Yes
|
No
|
|
Fully managed database backups
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Yes
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No
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Software updates (e.g. OS updates, security patches, bug fixes)
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SYSTEM MONITORING | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Database backup restoration tests and alerting for failed backups
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Yes
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No
|
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Monitoring CPU stats (e.g. load time, user time, system time, I/O wait time, idle time, and CPU steal time)
|
Yes
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No
|
|
Web server run state monitoring
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Yes
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No
|
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Packet monitoring (e.g. dropped received, errors received, received overruns, errors transferred, dropped transferred, transferred overruns, and collisions)
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Yes
|
No
|
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PHP process and fatal error monitoring
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Yes
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No
|
|
MySQL availability monitoring
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Yes
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No
|
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Varnish monitoring (e.g. client connections, dropped connections, client requests, cache hit rate, cache hit/pass, cache miss, backend fail, n_expired, and uptime)
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SECURITY FEATURES | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Multi-factor authentication
|
Yes
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No
|
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Roles & Credentials built-in
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Yes
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No
|
|
Real-time log streaming
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
IPv6 Support
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Yes
|
No
|
|
Shell access via SSH
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Yes
|
No
|
|
ClamAV support
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Yes
|
No
|
|
GeoIP available
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Yes
|
No
|
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Apache mod_proxy support to improve LAMP security
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Advanced WAF with customizable WAF rules (layer 7)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Secure Virtual Private Cloud (Acquia Shield VPC)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Specify application access by IP address (IP whitelisting)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Centralize view of logs (Log Forwarding)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Leverage internal organizational security policies to authenticate users (Enterprise SSO)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Drupal Steward Program member
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SECURITY ADD-ONS | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
|
Advanced WAF with customizable WAF rules (layer 7)
|
Add-On
|
No
|
|
Secure Virtual Private Cloud (Acquia Shield VPC)
|
Add-on
|
No
|
|
Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|
Add-on
|
No
|
|
Specify application access by IP address in the Cloud UI (Access Control List)
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Centralize view of logs (Log Forwarding)
|
Add-on
|
No
|
|
Leverage internal organizational security policies to authenticate users (Enterprise SSO)
|
Add-on
|
No
|
| PLATFORM SECURITY AUDITS | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
|
Yearly 3rd party security audits including: malicious user testing, insider threat assessments, and spearphishing exercise
|
Yes
|
No
|
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Monthly server and web application vulnerability scans
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Monthly operating system scans
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Monthly database and web application scans
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
DDoS Detection
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PLATFORM COMPLIANCE | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
|
FedRAMP Authorized
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
PCI
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
HIPAA
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
ISO 27001
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
SOC 1 & SOC 2
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
GDPR
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
CSA STAR
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
FISMA
|
Yes
|
No
|
| DRUPAL APPLICATION MAINTENANCE AND SECURITY | Drupal Cloud | DIY |
|---|---|---|
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Automatically track Drupal core updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
|
Yes
|
No
|
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Automatically track Drupal module updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Automatically track Drupal security updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Vulnerability scans
|
Yes
|
No
|
Still pouring your time, resources, and money down the DIY drain?
Get it all back, along with your mojo. Start innovating with Acquia’s Drupal Cloud.
A DIY approach seemed like a good idea at the time. But that short list of maintenance and set-up chores can get really big, and really expensive, really quickly. Plus, it sucks up valuable time you could be spending on your next brilliant Drupal application. Fortunately, there’s a better way.
Let our Drupal Cloud take care of the platform. So you can take care of business.