Acquia Cloud environments run on the following technology stack:
Component | Version |
---|---|
Web server OS | Ubuntu 16.04 (changelog) |
Web server | Apache 2.4.18 (upgrade notes) |
Load Balancer | Nginx 1.12.1 (changelog) |
Database | Percona Server 5.6 (changelog) (MySQL 5.6 (changelog) |
PHP | PHP 7.2.24 (changelog), PHP 7.3.11 (changelog) |
Caching proxy and load balancer | Varnish® 5.2.1 (changelog) Nginx (changelog) |
Memory cache | memcached 1.5.1 (changelog),
memcached 2.2.0 (Not available for Acquia Cloud Free) |
New Relic | New Relic 9.2.0.247 (changelog) |
Updates to these components can cause brief interruptions in service.
For information about the software resources included with Acquia Cloud CD on-demand environments and pipelines jobs, see Additional stack information.
Acquia Cloud supports:
Acquia Cloud Enterprise supports the following Enterprise features:
All Acquia subscribers receive access to the following Acquia services:
The resources for specific features available in Acquia Cloud can differ from the resources described on this page. For stack information for features included with Acquia Cloud, see the following resources:
Your Acquia Cloud server includes the following (non-complete) list of software packages:
Software | Version |
---|---|
APCu | 4.0.11 (changelog) |
ClamAV | 0.99.3 (changelog) |
Development tools (vim, emacs, gcc) | |
Drush 8 and 9 (default version: Drush 8) | 8.1.17, 9.3.0 (changelog) |
Git | 2.7.4 |
Ghostscript (changelog) | |
jpegtran | |
OpenSSL | 1.0.2 series (changelog) |
pngcrush | |
ssh2 | 0.13 (changelog) |
sysdig | 0.13.0 |
Acquia Cloud includes the following programming languages for your convenience, without support or adding of more libraries:
Language | Version |
---|---|
C | |
Perl | |
PHP | 7.2.24, 7.3.11 |
Python | 2.7.14 (changelog), 3.5.x (changelog) |
Ruby | 2.1.9 (changelog) |
PHP 7 support note
Acquia Cloud also includes the following items:
curl
, wget
, and traceroute
)ps
, top
, and strace
)/admin/reports/status/php
Acquia Cloud doesn’t support the following software:
The following software can’t be installed on Acquia Cloud:
apt-get
You can still install custom executables using your code repository.
Some Drupal contributed modules are incompatible with Acquia Cloud, or may require special configuration or care. For more information, see Modules and applications incompatible with Acquia Cloud.
The Acquia Cloud platform uses configuration management systems to ensure stability and consistency. As a result, Acquia Cloud doesn’t support custom operating system configuration changes, nor does Acquia make arbitrary customizations to configuration files such as Apache virtual hosts. Among other problems, such changes can cause your installation to fall outside the test suite for releases and upgrades, and any changes may not reliably survive a relaunch.
Supported customizations include: