

Since BLT has and environment detection is done using PHP environment variables, it is quite easily compatible with Platform.sh. Since it is just done at the beginning of your project and is a one-time setup, this shouldn't be a concern. But this doesn't mean you won't be able to use the full power of BLT and Platform.sh.

Platform.sh also supports Acquia BLT and has been so for a while now, but in my experience it is easier to set-up from scratch on Acquia, clearly because they built it for Acquia BLT. Acquia Cloud Platform is a fully managed, high-availability, scalable, clustered Drupal hosting environment, built on Amazon Web Services infrastructure. It would be better if we just talked about the key differences between these two platforms. Multiple environments (dev, stage, prod, etc), temporary environments for every branch you push (configurable), a command-line tool to build and deploy, VCS (Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, etc) integration with CI/CD and much more.

They are pretty much similar in many aspects. With hundreds of thousands of active sites worldwide, Acquia Cloud Platform provides cloud hosting specifically designed to support Drupal.
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I have worked extensively with both platforms for hosting Drupal applications. Co-founded by Drupal inventor Dries Buytaert, Acquia Cloud Platform is built around a deep understanding of how to best support and operationalize Drupal in a cloud environment. Do what you will with that information, but I do not care for it. How in the world did that happen, right?!īefore I start, Acquia was founded by Dries, and Platform.sh by commerce guys (drupal commerce peeps). You will find that the articles contradict each other. You can find those details in the marketing articles posted by Platform.sh ( ) and Acquia ( ). Is an apple better than a pear? Exactly! This article will not compare things like security, scalability, support, etc. I have put the word better in quotes because we can't really compare the two and come to a conclusion saying one is better. The title of this article mentions "better" Drupal hosting.
