Acquia provides a wide variety of commercial products, services, and support that help organizations build and manage Websites on the Drupal open source social publishing platform. Acquia’s primary offerings include Acquia Drupal, which is a free distribution of key Drupal community modules to expand upon the basic install, and the subscription-based Acquia Network, which includes expert support and Website management tools. Acquia also provides cloud-based hosting for Drupal Websites, remote site administration, and professional training. The company is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, and is currently employing approximately 90 individuals.
Acquia is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its own infrastructure and to host its customers’ Drupal Websites. Acquia is currently utilizing Amazon’s resizable computing service Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for Web-based data storage and retrieval. The Acquia developers are using PHP and Ruby within AWS, in addition to several of the Amazon command line tools. Presently, Acquia has over 350 individual server instances on AWS.