Your business needs more than Drupal hosting. With Acquia, you get more than just a Pantheon alternative. You get a flexible, scalable solution that works for you.
We're out here, in the front of the pack as mid-market and momentum leaders in 2023. You know, running up that road, running up that hill, with no problems.
Acquia supports Drupal 10. Get support for every Drupal application, regardless of version. Developers and Marketers choose Acquia because their business needs more than just Drupal hosting. Drive alignment and expedited development timelines with a solution that empowers business users to contribute and provides the flexibility and adaptability that your business needs.
High Availability & Global Delivery
Benefit from a highly available, multi-zone architecture without additional cost. With Pantheon, you'll be paying extra for high availability and peace of mind. Additionally, Acquia offers 9 global regions to host your application compared to Pantheon's 4 regions.
Effortless Content Editing
With low-code site builder with 70+ pre-built components, and a full suite of marketing tools, get marketers involved in content creation and marketing optimization.
99.99% Uptime – Back Your Drupal Application With Up to 99.99% Uptime*
Acquia provides the most advanced platform with multi-zone failover built in to ensure that your Drupal experiences are always available.
Optimized Drupal Developer Tools
We offer the only Cloud-based dev environment made for Drupal, and it's ready to use in minutes. Developers can focus on writing code instead of building and maintaining environments.
The Only Solution for Sites at Scale
Meet the only solution that allows organizations to seamlessly manage sites at scale and create new sites with one click. All editable with low-code.
A Hybrid CMS Model
Take advantage of a Hybrid CMS model that lets you deploy content to any channel. Acquia also supports Node.js hosting. Pantheon will not support Node.js apps.
More for your money isn't just something we say. It's something we can prove. When you look at the details, time, money and peace of mind start to add up. Fast.
| Features | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
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Fully Managed Drupal Platform
Support for Drupal (7, 8, 9, & 10), System Monitoring, and Website Portfolio Management
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
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Security & Compliance
Platform Security, Security Add-Ons, Security Testing & Audits, Drupal Application Security, Organizational Security, and Compliance
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
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Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 Migration Tools and Services
Drupal 7 Extended Support (2024), Drupal 9 platform support, Automated Tool for Drupal 7 migrations, and an Expert Drupal Support Team
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪
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Cloud-based Drupal Development Tools
Cloud Integrated Development Environment
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
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General Drupal Development Tools
Drupal Development Tools & Services, Local Development, Developer integrations
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
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Support & Services
Organizational Security, Expert Drupal Support Team, Dedicated Drupal Team, Drupal Application Support, Platform Support, and an Extensive PS Team
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
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Marketer-Friendly Site Building Tools
Low-code site builder, Pre-built site components, Master Style Guide, Out of the box distribution of Drupal
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
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Digital Marketing Extensions
Personalization, customer data platform, campaign management
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
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Drupal Community Contributions
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
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Flexible, Straight Forward Pricing for Enterprises
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🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
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No native tooling from Pantheon. Only suggested integrations.
Pantheon LocalDev. Complex setup.
No native tooling from Pantheon. Only suggested integrations.
No native tooling from Pantheon. Only suggested integrations.
Automatic cache clear in Pantheon’s WebOps workflow.
Code Studio to understand the needs of your project with issue management tools.
Spin up a pre-configured Cloud IDE in minutes.
Code Studio ensures code quality, checks for vulnerabilities, and audits dependencies.
Customizable code review and approval process built into Code Studio.
Use Cloud Platform’s Cloud Actions to automatically execute actions after a code deploy.
Marketing teams need the ability to create and edit their content on the fly. Waiting for simple content edits in a Developer queue can take time that Marketers don’t have. Low-code tools allow Marketers to create content on their own.
Acquia Site Studio lets anyone on the team create sites and pages quickly and easily using low-code. With 70+ prebuilt components and a drag-and-drop UI, you are set up to start building from day 1.
Eliminate the endless requests to your development team to edit content. Marketing teams can update content with no coding required, in real time through Site Studio’s drag-and-drop interface.
No pre-scripted call center runaround. Our team of Drupal experts is here to help you solve problems as quickly as possible.
Expert Drupal support available 24/7/365 with custom solution planning and implementation and an option for a Technical Account Manager.
Comprehensive Drupal and Acquia product training with option for certification and expert training and advice from Professional Services.
Get access to an expansive collection of product documentation, code snippets and tutorials.
Acquia Developers Center
Turn to the Dev Center for expert guidance from Acquia's tech team, so you can take on any challenge that comes your way.
Dedicated support for the platform and your Drupal app is included for all our Enterprise customers. No fancy extra package required.
When it comes to your digital experience, you shouldn't have to compromise. Acquia Cloud subscriptions come with a full set of products to help you build a better Drupal application.
With Acquia Cloud IDE, all you need is a browser to write great code. Set up and debug in almost no time.
With a low-code, drag and drop site builder, Acquia Site Studio makes it easy for non-technical users to make great Drupal sites.
Make the move from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 seamless with Acquia Migrate Accelerate, the only automated tool for D7 to D9 migration.
Changing the way you work doesn't have to be a chore. With Acquia Cloud Platform, you can adjust your workflows as needed and get back to work quickly.
| Infrastructure | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Kubernetes-native operators and controllers built specifically for Drupal (not to be confused with just using Kubernetes)
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✓
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—
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Aurora Serverless DB for fastest DB performance (3x faster than pantheon’s Maria DB)
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✓
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—
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Amazon EFS to deliver data as fast as 10GB/second
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✓
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—
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Grow your file systems and databases beyond 1TB with access to almost limitless storage volumes
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✓
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—
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| Single Site Platform Features | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Fully managed search with Solr 7
|
✓
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—
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Search platform compatible with Drupal 9
|
✓
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—
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Support Drupal 9 applications
|
✓
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—
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Supports Drupal multisite applications
|
✓
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—
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Up to 300 seconds for PHP scripts
|
✓
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—
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Automated syncing between file systems and databases across all environments (Click and Drag UI)
|
✓
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—
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Platform Email
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✓
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—
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| Many Site Platform Features | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Centralized Site Management - A single dashboard to view all of your sites, set roles and permissions and administer new sites.
|
✓
|
✓
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|
One Click Site Creation - Within minutes, clone an existing site and use it as a template for a new site(s)
|
✓
|
✓
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Composable Site Templates - Manage multiple themes in an easily-accessible repository.
|
✓
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—
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Low-Code Presentation Controls - Enforce brand guidelines like color pallets, fonts, and responsive grid layouts.
|
✓
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—
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Low-Code component editing - Drag and drop prebuilt components from Site Studio's library into layouts and new sites
|
✓
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—
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Structured Content & Metadata - Enable content categorization and classification to support search, discovery, and content delivery.
|
✓
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✓
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Enterprise Access Management & Site Governance - Establish roles and permissions to ensure correct access for your whole team.
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Enterprise Workflows - Optimize workflows at scale to make your entire site delivery process more efficient.
|
✓
|
✓
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| CDN | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
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Price
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Included
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Included
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Points of Presence (POPs)
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65 POPs
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65 POPs
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Full-Page & Asset Caching
|
✓
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✓
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|
Layer 3 & 4 DDOS Protection & Mitigation
|
✓
|
✓
|
| WAF | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
OWASP Top 10
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Account Takeover (ATO)
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
API Abuse
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Malicious Bots
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Partner API Misuse
|
✓
|
✓
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Abusive, Disallowed Traffic Sources
|
✓
|
✓
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Application Denial of Service
|
✓
|
✓
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PCI Compliant
|
✓
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—
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Automatic WAF Updates
|
✓
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—
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Collective intelligence to identify new threats
|
✓
|
✓
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Comment spam protection
|
✓
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—
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|
Block or challenge visitors by AS number
|
✓
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—
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User Agent blocking
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Security level configuration
|
✓
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—
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Reputation-based threat protection
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Block or challenge visitors by IP address
|
✓
|
✓
|
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Block or challenge visitors by country code
|
✓
|
✓
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Zone lockdown
|
✓
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—
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Differentiate between humans and bots using Tor
|
✓
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—
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Adaptive & Self-tuning
|
✓
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—
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API Discovery & Security
|
✓
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—
|
|
Actionable Insights
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Flexible Management
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Zero-second SLA
|
✓
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—
|
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High Configurability
|
✓
|
✓
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| Developer Tools | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
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| Security | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
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Multi-factor authentication
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Roles & Credentials built-in
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Real-time log streaming
|
✓
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—
|
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IPv6 Support
|
✓
|
✓
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Shell access via SSH
|
✓
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—
|
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ClamAV support
|
✓
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—
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GeoIP available
|
✓
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—
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Apache mod_proxy support to improve LAMP security
|
✓
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—
|
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Drupal Steward Program member
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Yearly 3rd party security audits including: malicious user testing, insider threat assessments, and spearphishing exercise
|
✓
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—
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Monthly server and web application vulnerability scans
|
✓
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—
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Monthly operating system scans
|
✓
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—
|
|
Monthly database and web application scans
|
✓
|
—
|
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DDoS Detection
|
✓
|
—
|
| Compliance | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
FedRAMP Authorized
|
✓
|
—
|
|
PCI
|
✓
|
—
|
|
HIPAA
|
✓
|
—
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ISO 27001
|
✓
|
—
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SOC 2 Type 2
|
✓
|
✓
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|
SOC 1 Type 2
|
✓
|
—
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GDPR
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
CSA STAR
|
✓
|
—
|
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FISMA
|
✓
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—
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FERPA
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
EU-US & US-Swiss Privacy Shield
|
✓
|
✓
|
| System Monitoring | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
New Relic APM Pro - Dig into performance issues with New Relic, included for all Cloud Platform subscriptions
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Stack Metrics - Understand your application's performance, health, and resource utilization
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Log forwarding, streaming, downloading - Gather, understand, and share information from various logs quickly and easily
|
✓
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—
|
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Uptime Monitoring & Alerts - Receive alerts if your site is not responsive, and monitor uptime trends
|
✓
|
—
|
| Plan | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Project and issue management
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Task lists with automated updated from tags
|
✓
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—
|
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Description templates for issues
|
✓
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—
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|
Kanban board for projects
|
✓
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—
|
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Milestone tracking and issue due dates
|
✓
|
—
|
| Build | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Lando integration for local development
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Cloud IDE for turn key development
|
✓
|
—
|
|
CI/CD pipelines out of the box
|
✓
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—
|
|
Optimized Drupal environment
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Dedicated hardware per IDE
|
✓
|
—
|
|
PHP Code Sniffer
|
✓
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—
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|
Ruby / RVM
|
✓
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—
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Node.js / NPM / NVM
|
✓
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—
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Preconfigured Xdebug
|
✓
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—
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Composer / Composer 2
|
✓
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—
|
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Environment isolation
|
✓
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—
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Code, database and files synchronization
|
✓
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—
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Auto-configured database connection
|
✓
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—
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Prod-matched PHP configuration
|
✓
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—
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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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—
|
| Test | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Audit Dependencies
|
✓
|
—
|
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Audit vulnerabilities
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Audit Code Quality
|
✓
|
—
|
| Review | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Customizable code review and approval process
|
✓
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—
|
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Issue Management tools
|
✓
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—
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Merge request tracking and automation
|
✓
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—
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Value Streams Analytics
|
✓
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—
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Issue and project time tracking
|
✓
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—
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| Deploy | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Visual UI for deploying code
|
✓
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—
|
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Branch and tag management per environment
|
✓
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—
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Set defaults per environment
|
✓
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—
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Select Actions on the fly while deploying
|
✓
|
—
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Automatically execute actions after a code deploy
|
✓
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—
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Ability to manage multiple sites from one UI and push code updates to all sites with guaranteed success (Site Factory)
|
✓
|
—
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Automated code deployment across environments controlled by a drag-and-drop interface
|
✓
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—
|
|
Built in code security and performance quality testing
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Build API to integrate your development platform with external systems
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Code tests automatically run when you push code from development to staging environments to ensure code quality
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Integration between development platform and third-party services (i.e. Github)
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Automated syncing between file systems and databases across all environments (Click and Drag UI)
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Seamless Drupal Development Workflows
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Cloud based Developer environment
|
✓
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—
|
| Content Management System | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Curated version of Drupal
|
✓
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—
|
|
Build and launch new content within days
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Pre-selected Drupal Modules to eliminate any configuration requirements
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Fully managed security and performance updates
|
✓
|
✓
|
|
Pre-built content types and defined authoring experience
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Pre-built integrations to key marketing technology
|
✓
|
—
|
| Drupal Starter Kit | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Enterprise Low Code
The low code starter kit will install Acquia Drupal Starter Kits with Site Studio enabled and will include a UI Kit. The content model is optional. You will be prompted to choose to enable a content model while selecting the starter kit if required.
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✓
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—
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|
Community
This starter kit will install base modules of Acquia Drupal Starter Kits. This will not install Site Studio, the UI Kit or a content model. The user will have an option to select if they want a content model.
|
✓
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—
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|
Headless
The headless starter kit aims to pre-configure Drupal for serving structured, RESTful content to 3rd party content displays such as mobile apps, smart displays and frontend driven websites (e.g. React or Next.js)
|
✓
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—
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| Application Security | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Secure Virtual Private Cloud (Acquia Shield VPC)
|
Add-On
|
—
|
|
Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|
Add-On
|
—
|
|
Secure tunnel between your firewall and your public facing website
|
—
|
Add-On
|
|
Built-in CDN for optimal performance (60+ Points of Presence around the world)
|
✓
|
✓
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|
Advanced Global CDN with over 200 Points of Presence around the world
|
Add-On
|
—
|
|
Basic WAF available to protect against ~20% of threats
|
—
|
Add-On
|
|
Advanced WAF with highly customizable rules and automatically applied Drupal WAF rules to protect against 80% of threats (Edge Security)
|
Add-On
|
—
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|
Specify application access by IP address in the Cloud UI (Access Control List)
|
Add-On
|
—
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|
Centralize view of logs (Log Forwarding)
|
Add-On
|
—
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|
Leverage internal organizational security policies to authenticate users (Enterprise SSO)
|
Add-On
|
—
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| Drupal Migration Tools | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Leverage a comprehensive migration environment and curated process for your Drupal upgrade.
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✓
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—
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Optimized Cloud Environment - Leverage a pre-built cloud environment to support your new Drupal 9 application
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Module Recommendation Engine - Automatically recommends modules and patches from your D7 site to smooth migration paths.
|
✓
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—
|
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Migration User Interface - Curated user interface built specifically for D7 to D9 migrations making it easier to use.
|
✓
|
—
|
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Pre-Loaded Drupal 9 Code Base - Make migration smoother with top equivalents for your D7 contrib modules, as well any core + contrib patches.
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Migration Dashboard - View your progress and any errors encountered during migrations in one centralized migration dashboard.
|
✓
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—
|
|
Dependency Knowledge Baked In - Acquia Migrate Accelerate will not let you import article comments unless articles have already been imported.
|
✓
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—
|
|
Migration Preview - View the before/after values as well as a rendered preview, before importing content.
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Migration Queue - Queue one or more migrations for import. Migrations sort automatically according to their result.
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Migration Error Logs - Log any errors you encounter in one console that tracks migration/code-related errors, and validation errors.
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Error Resolution Suggestions - Acquia Migrate Accelerate generates a solution for the most common error messages and provides next steps.
|
✓
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—
|
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Content Mapping Page - Use insight into how source and destinations map together, and what process plugins are used.
|
✓
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—
|
|
Low-Code Presentation Building - Leverage Site Studio's low-code approach to accelerate your Drupal 9 presentation build.
|
✓
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—
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| Marketers | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Site building experience created for non-technical users
|
✓
|
—
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|
Low-code visual, drag and drop interface
|
✓
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—
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70+ pre-built components to quickly assemble new pages
|
✓
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—
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Prebuilt page templates to spin up new pages or sites faster
|
✓
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—
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|
Style Guide manager to ensure brand governance and consistency across pages and sites
|
✓
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—
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|
Preset design elements w the ability to customize each component
|
✓
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—
|
|
Empowers all team members to create content - marketing, agency partners, IT, subject matter experts
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Customer Data Platform that natively connects with Drupal
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Customer Data Platform that provides a 360 degree view of your customers and prospects
|
✓
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—
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Campaign Management design to work with Drupal
|
✓
|
—
|
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Digital Asset Management with pre-built integrations to Drupal
|
✓
|
—
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| Personalization | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Designed to natively integrate with Drupal
|
✓
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—
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|
Build individual experiences for each user
|
✓
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—
|
|
A/B testing and optimization of content
|
✓
|
—
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Unified customer profile
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Real-time optimization across channels and devices
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Identify the best performing content
|
✓
|
—
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| Organization Security | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
Guaranteed price match (assuming feature parity)
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Guaranteed best-practice based developer experience with turnkey availability
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Guaranteed superior security
|
✓
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—
|
|
Guaranteed application support on any Drupal code issue
|
✓
|
—
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| Analyst Rankings | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
|
3 dedicated security teams
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Internal security awareness training for entire organization required
|
✓
|
—
|
|
All operations, support, engineering, and security personnel are trained on Acquia Cloud specific platform security
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Designated incident response manager
|
✓
|
—
|
|
3rd party platform audits performed bi-annually to test and prove platform security: Malicious user testing, Insider threat assessments, Spearphishing exercise
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Quarterly independent platform audits to test and prove platform security
|
✓
|
—
|
|
Monthly operating system, database, server and web application security scans to detect vulnerabilities
|
✓
|
—
|
| Investment in Drupal & Developer Community | Drupal Cloud | Pantheon |
|---|---|---|
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Drupal’s Founder, Dries Buytaert works here
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#1 Overall Drupal Contributor over the past 10 years
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Dedicated Drupal Acceleration Team
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#1 Drupal Contributor to Drupal Security
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Within the top 30 Drupal contributors
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1800+ Drupal Contribution Credits
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Focused on Drupal
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Sponsors Drupal events
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3 fully trained security teams dedicated to securing the platform and implementing best-practices
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Platform support available to all 24/7/365
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Expert Drupal application support available 24/7/365
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Add-On
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Dedicated Drupal Acceleration Team committed to contributing to Drupal
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Drupal experts ingrained in our engineering teams to ensure all products are built Drupal-first
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Internal team training (including yearly training on security best practices)
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Internal security awareness training for entire organization required
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All operations, support, engineering, and security personnel are trained on Acquia Cloud specific platform security
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Designated incident response manager
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3rd party platform audits performed bi-annually to test and prove platform security: Malicious user testing, Insider threat assessments, Spearphishing exercise
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Quarterly independent platform audits to test and prove platform security
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Monthly operating system, database, server and web application security scans to detect vulnerabilities
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