Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs Amazon Web Services

• Easy to manage multiple environments and a team of Site Developers and Site Administrators
• Easy and intuitive to conduct deployments, back-ups, rollbacks of code, databases, and files
• Useful add-ons such as Solr Search, Security, Site Monitoring, Migration tools, etc.
• Excellent and responsive support

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• What I like in it, is its simple notification service which provides a mobile messaging feature to enable push messaging to my mobile devices as well.
• It helps in sending out notifications to all my teammates with full integrity.
• Responsive Support.
• Offers a variety of features that help to manage my workload.

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• Using the platform is not for the faint of heart. It takes some understanding of how a back-end system technology works to be able to get anything done or even know where to go.
• Being able to verify DNS services is not easy to do. A digital market is required to do this with Facebook or Google from time to time but it is hidden from the non-tech user. I need to find a tech expert to do a simple task that is holding up the quality of our digital advertising. This is the way the digital world works and these capabilities need to be exposed and easy to verify by non-tech users quickly without the possibility of disrupting the system.

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• If there is one thing I think AWS needs improvement on, it is the administration dashboard. It can be a nightmare to use especially when trying to access billing. This could be made better, honestly, as there should be a simplified way to access simple admin features.
• While AWS was fairly easy to integrate into our solutions, it is not as easy to use without some IT knowledge. The dashboards are complicated and designed for someone who is computer savvy. If you are just want to keep track of billing, for example, you may need to take a course or spend a few hours with someone being walked through the admin console.
• AWS does tend to be slow at times. If you do not have a fast internet connection, it can take time to access services that are hosted on AWS. This is not always the case but we have had clients complain about this if they are trying to access a service from multiple points (IP addresses). The only real fix we found was to make our files cache to another server and only keep current data accessible to clients.

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• Acquia has a positive impact on our internal ROI for our own website.
• Most of our clients also see a positive impact on ROI when using Acquia for their web platform. This does change based on the cost of the Acquia instance.
• Acquia allows us to save time and money on client projects, allowing us to increase our margins.

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• AWS has lowered our employee cost, because you don't have to hire Network/Server Admins to manage infrastructure.
• Increased productivity by incorporating Continuous Integration with AWS and our development life cycle.
• Increased customer confidence by being able to provide HIPAA level security in our development and production environments

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