Acquia Cloud technology platform and supported software¶

Supported software and features¶

Acquia Cloud supports:

• Your Drupal 8 or Drupal 7 code
• Drush 8 or Drush 9
• Integrated version management (Git)
• SSL Certificates (fee required)
• Automated disaster recovery backup
• Custom cron jobs
• Shell access using SSH
• File access using SFTP (secure FTP) and rsync
• MySQL administration using the MySQL CLI or other tools
• The current and prior major release of the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari web browsers

Acquia Cloud Enterprise supports the following Enterprise features:

• High-availability failover using several Amazon Web Services data centers (Availability Zones)
• Outgoing VPN access (Cisco VPN compatible—fee required)
• Shared authentication or single sign-on using LDAP or SAML (contact your Sales Engineer for cost and compatibility information)
• Multi-region replication (fee required)

All Acquia subscribers receive access to the following Acquia services:

• Acquia Search: Add scalable search to your website
• Insight: Information about your Drupal website’s optimization and security

Included software¶

Your Acquia Cloud server includes the following (non-complete) list of software packages:

• APCu
• ClamAV
• Development tools (vim, emacs, gcc)
• Drush 8 and 9 (default version: Drush 8)
• Git
• Ghostscript
• jpegtran
• OpenSSL
• pngcrush
• ssh2
• sysdig

Acquia Cloud includes the following programming languages for your convenience, without support or adding of more libraries:

• C
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

Acquia Cloud also includes the following items:

• Common Linux command-line utilities
• Standard networking tools (including curl, wget, and traceroute)
• Performance analysis tools (including ps, top, and strace)
• Common PEAR and PECL libraries
• Common PHP modules (including PDO, FreeTDS, OpenSSL, JSON, SOAP, curl, and XML). For detailed information, go to your Drupal website’s PHP information page at /admin/reports/status/php

Unsupported software¶

Acquia Cloud doesn’t support the following software:

• Moodle (not compatible with high availability)
• piwik (this package may cause performance issues)
• Any non-Drupal Content Management System (CMS)
• CA Single Sign-on (formerly CA SiteMinder)
• Internet Explorer 11

The following software can’t be installed on Acquia Cloud:

• Non-standard database software, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server
• Custom daemons or services, such as Jabber or Microsoft Exchange
• Custom package installations requiring 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.

Configuration changes¶

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:

• Custom Varnish configuration
• Custom Apache Solr search configuration
• .htaccess changes