Cloud Platform environments are based on the following technology stack:
Component | Software |
---|---|
Infrastructure OS | Ubuntu |
Infrastructure | Apache |
Scripting language | PHP |
Database | Percona infrastructure (MySQL) (Cloud Classic) AWS Aurora MySQL (Cloud Next) |
File System | Redhat Gluster (Cloud Classic) AWS EFS (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.
Cloud Platform environments support:
Cloud Platform Enterprise supports the following Enterprise features:
All Acquia contract subscribers receive access to Acquia Search.
The resources for specific features available in Cloud Platform can differ from the resources described on this page. For stack information for features included with Cloud Platform, see the following resources:
Your Cloud Platform infrastructure includes the following (non-complete) list of software packages:
Note
These libraries and software may not be available on Cloud Next environments.
Cloud Platform includes the following programming languages for your convenience, without support or adding of more libraries:
Cloud Platform also includes the following items:
curl
, wget
, and traceroute
)ps
, top
, and strace
)/admin/reports/status/php
Cloud Platform does not support the following software:
The following software cannot be installed on Cloud Platform:
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.
Cloud Platform uses configuration management systems to ensure stability and consistency. As a result, Cloud Platform does not 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: