Cloud Platform technology platform and supported software¶

Supported software and features¶

Cloud Platform supports:

• Your Drupal 9, Drupal 8, or Drupal 7 code
• Drush 8, Drush 9, or Drush 10
• 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

Cloud Platform 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:

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

Included software¶

Your Cloud Platform 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)
• FreeType (not yet available in PHP 7.4)
• Git
• Ghostscript
• jpeg / libjpeg (not yet available in PHP 7.4)
• jpegtran
• OpenSSL
• pngcrush
• ssh2 (not yet available in PHP 7.4)
• sysdig
• webp (not yet available in PHP 7.4)
• xpm / libxpm (not yet available in PHP 7.4)

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

• C
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

Cloud Platform 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¶

Cloud Platform 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 Cloud Platform:

• 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 Cloud Platform, or may require special configuration or care. For more information, see Modules and applications incompatible with Cloud Platform.

Configuration changes¶

The Cloud Platform uses configuration management systems to ensure stability and consistency. As a result, Cloud Platform 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
• Adding non-Drupal PHP extensions or libraries to your application