This page describes load testing requirements for the Cloud Platform infrastructure for different subscription types.
Cloud Classic-hosted applications
Cloud Platform Professional
Cloud Platform Professional applications rely on a shared load balancing infrastructure that is used by other customers. Dedicated load balancers are unavailable on such platforms. Therefore, Acquia does not permit unlimited volume of load or stress testing on Cloud Platform Professional in any production or non-production environment. By putting a limit on the volume, Acquia can ensure that other customers’ applications are not impacted by any other application’s development efforts.
If you are on Cloud Platform Professional and require load testing for your application, contact your Acquia account manager to discuss about upgrading your subscription.
Cloud Platform Enterprise with dedicated load balancers
If you are a Cloud Platform Enterprise customer with dedicated load balancers in front of any environment, you can perform an application stress test at any time. However, you must first create a Support ticket and get an acknowledgment on the ticket from Acquia Support. With this advance notice, Acquia can notify all the technicians about your load test. This prevents Acquia from blocking that traffic as the traffic would otherwise look suspicious without the customer notification.
When you submit this request to Acquia Support, include the date, time, and time zone of the planned test, and also indicate whether the traffic will be anonymous or authenticated.
If your application is not yet live, you can run a load test on your production environment. After your application is live, use a dedicated load testing environment that duplicates your production environment, so that you get the most accurate results on a non-production environment.
Cloud Next-hosted applications
For applications running on Cloud Next, the options noted earlier for Cloud Platform Enterprise applications apply. However, Cloud Next does not yet support the provisioning of dedicated load test environments that are added to your existing application.
As an alternative, until dedicated load test environments are supported on Cloud Next, Acquia provisions a new temporary application with only a production environment for you to test on for the desired period. To utilize this environment, you must replicate your code, database, files, and PHP settings over the test application. That application can be used for load testing without the risk of the test impacting your production environment. To get pricing information, contact your Acquia account manager.