Cloud Platform environments are based on the following technology stack:
Component | Software |
---|---|
Web server OS | Ubuntu |
Web server | Apache |
Scripting language | PHP |
Database | Percona Server (MySQL) (Classic Cloud) AWS Aurora MySQL (Acquia Cloud Next) |
File System | Redhat Gluster (Classic Cloud) AWS EFS (Acquia Cloud Next) |
Caching proxy and load balancer | Varnish®, Nginx |
Memory cache | Memcached |
Application performance monitoring | New Relic |
Updates to these components can cause brief interruptions in service.
For information about the software resources included with Cloud Platform CD on-demand environments and pipelines jobs, see Additional stack information.
Acquia Cloud Platform environments support:
Cloud Platform 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 Platform can differ from the resources described on this page. For stack information for features included with Acquia Cloud Platform, see the following resources:
Your Cloud Platform server includes the following (non-complete) list of software packages:
Acquia Cloud Platform includes the following programming languages for your convenience, without support or adding of more libraries:
PHP 7 support note
Acquia Cloud Platform also includes the following items:
curl
, wget
, and traceroute
)ps
, top
, and strace
)/admin/reports/status/php
Acquia Cloud Platform doesn’t support the following software:
The following software can’t be installed on Acquia Cloud Platform:
apt-get
You can still install custom executables using your code repository.
Some Drupal contributed modules are incompatible with Acquia Cloud Platform, or may require special configuration or care. For more information, see Modules and applications incompatible with Cloud Platform.
Acquia Cloud Platform uses configuration management systems to ensure stability and consistency. As a result, Acquia 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: