Cloud Platform is a Drupal-tuned application lifecycle management suite with a complete infrastructure to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging through to production. Cloud Platform includes powerful developer user interfaces, a strong focus on security and compliance, a robust API, and automated deployment from a version-controlled code repository. It runs on proven open-source technologies that Acquia has selected, tested, and optimized for Drupal. With Cloud Platform, Acquia delivers comprehensive Drupal infrastructure support from a single vendor.
Cloud Classic is a Drupal-tuned application lifecycle management suite with a complete infrastructure to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging through to production. Cloud Classic includes powerful developer user interfaces, a strong focus on security and compliance, a robust API, and automated deployment from a version-controlled code repository. It runs on proven open-source technologies that Acquia has selected, tested, and optimized for Drupal. With Cloud Classic, Acquia delivers comprehensive Drupal infrastructure support from a single vendor.
Great developer workflow tools that make it easy to deploy content with drag-and-drop features across separate development, staging, and production environments.
Easy-to-configure search service that lets you improve scalability, relevance, and performance of Drupal's search capabilities.
Cloud Classic supports businesses of any size with a variety of subscription levels:
Cloud Platform Professional provides a self-service environment built for developing and deploying one or more production websites.
Cloud Platform Enterprise delivers a fully managed, scalable, multi-server service, with high availability.
Cloud Platform and Cloud Classic
Cloud Platform is the name of a major update to Cloud Classic, introducing improved performance, security, and resiliency for applications at any scale. Acquia’s non-Kubernetes version of Cloud Platform is referred to as the Cloud Classic infrastructure.
Note
Cloud Platform has improved security and updated reference architecture. Therefore, it neither includes any deprecated function nor selects customizations available on Cloud Classic.
To request specific functionality not otherwise listed on this page as Temporarily unavailable features, contact your Acquia account team.
How to know a Cloud Platform environment
To know if your environment runs on Cloud Platform:
Environments that run on Cloud Platform are indicated with the following icon:
Key benefits of Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform leverages more powerful cloud-based technologies to maximize application performance, security, and resiliency, especially during periods of high load. Powered by Kubernetes and enhanced with Acquia’s unique optimizations for Drupal, Cloud Platform leverages ultra-secure container-based isolation and advanced data management technologies to ensure that your applications accommodate almost limitless scale.
Cloud Platform has the following benefits:
Dynamic auto-scaling that is faster and more automated than ever before
Re-architected file system, delivering data as fast as 10 GB per second
Re-architected database layer, delivering up to 5x the throughput of databases running on more traditional MySQL infrastructure deployments
Important
Some of the following platform behaviors may require changes to your custom scripts, cron jobs, CI/CD automations, or standard development processes. If your Cloud Classic environments are scheduled for upgrade to Cloud Platform, audit your application to ensure that the changes that can be made prior to the upgrade are deployed before the scheduled maintenance date. Prioritize the changes that cannot be made prior to the upgrade so that they are deployed immediately after the maintenance event.
As a result of newer technologies in Cloud Platform, some features behave differently compared to Cloud Classic, including:
Before upgrading your environments to Cloud Platform or launching a new application on Cloud Platform, review the Temporarily unavailable features to ensure that you will not require them before they are available on Cloud Platform.
The following Cloud Platform dashboard and infrastructure features, settings, and modules are not supported on the current version of Cloud Platform, but will be added in an upcoming release:
Self-healing infrastructure to ensure that containers are constantly refreshed and unhealthy pods are automatically pruned
Invisible platform updates for most types of maintenance to reduce noise and maximize availability
Atomic code updates to ensure clean builds on new containers during every code deployment
Reduced deployment downtime and impact of deployment mistakes
Web layer software isolation to ensure that Drupal, Memcached, Cron, SSH, and Cloud Hooks always have the resources they need to operate performantly without interfering with each other
Optimized Memcached architecture to improve cache resiliency
Storage growth beyond 1 TB on file systems and databases
Easy access to historical logs with up to 30 days of logs available through the Cloud Platform user interface and Acquia’s Cloud API v2/v3
Dedicated pods for different services to optimize resource isolation and resiliency
Option for hosting applications in the same or different physical hosting locations
Dynamic real-time headless applications, multi-brand experiences with composable commerce, employee intranet with static sites
Provision to build, test, and deploy on the end-to-end platform for Drupal development
Default end-to-end encryption for all traffic in the Acquia infrastructure.
Cloud Platform is optimized for the current Drupal version. Applications running unsupported versions of Drupal might not operate as expected on Cloud Platform and may be adversely impacted by periodic platform updates.
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Overview
Overview
Cloud Platform is a Drupal-tuned application lifecycle management suite with a complete infrastructure to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging through to production. Cloud Platform includes powerful developer user interfaces, a strong focus on security and compliance, a robust API, and automated deployment from a version-controlled code repository. It runs on proven open-source technologies that Acquia has selected, tested, and optimized for Drupal. With Cloud Platform, Acquia delivers comprehensive Drupal infrastructure support from a single vendor.
Cloud Classic is a Drupal-tuned application lifecycle management suite with a complete infrastructure to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging through to production. Cloud Classic includes powerful developer user interfaces, a strong focus on security and compliance, a robust API, and automated deployment from a version-controlled code repository. It runs on proven open-source technologies that Acquia has selected, tested, and optimized for Drupal. With Cloud Classic, Acquia delivers comprehensive Drupal infrastructure support from a single vendor.
Great developer workflow tools that make it easy to deploy content with drag-and-drop features across separate development, staging, and production environments.
Easy-to-configure search service that lets you improve scalability, relevance, and performance of Drupal's search capabilities.
Cloud Classic supports businesses of any size with a variety of subscription levels:
Cloud Platform Professional provides a self-service environment built for developing and deploying one or more production websites.
Cloud Platform Enterprise delivers a fully managed, scalable, multi-server service, with high availability.
Cloud Platform and Cloud Classic
Cloud Platform is the name of a major update to Cloud Classic, introducing improved performance, security, and resiliency for applications at any scale. Acquia’s non-Kubernetes version of Cloud Platform is referred to as the Cloud Classic infrastructure.
Note
Cloud Platform has improved security and updated reference architecture. Therefore, it neither includes any deprecated function nor selects customizations available on Cloud Classic.
To request specific functionality not otherwise listed on this page as Temporarily unavailable features, contact your Acquia account team.
How to know a Cloud Platform environment
To know if your environment runs on Cloud Platform:
Environments that run on Cloud Platform are indicated with the following icon:
Key benefits of Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform leverages more powerful cloud-based technologies to maximize application performance, security, and resiliency, especially during periods of high load. Powered by Kubernetes and enhanced with Acquia’s unique optimizations for Drupal, Cloud Platform leverages ultra-secure container-based isolation and advanced data management technologies to ensure that your applications accommodate almost limitless scale.
Cloud Platform has the following benefits:
Dynamic auto-scaling that is faster and more automated than ever before
Re-architected file system, delivering data as fast as 10 GB per second
Re-architected database layer, delivering up to 5x the throughput of databases running on more traditional MySQL infrastructure deployments
Important
Some of the following platform behaviors may require changes to your custom scripts, cron jobs, CI/CD automations, or standard development processes. If your Cloud Classic environments are scheduled for upgrade to Cloud Platform, audit your application to ensure that the changes that can be made prior to the upgrade are deployed before the scheduled maintenance date. Prioritize the changes that cannot be made prior to the upgrade so that they are deployed immediately after the maintenance event.
As a result of newer technologies in Cloud Platform, some features behave differently compared to Cloud Classic, including:
Before upgrading your environments to Cloud Platform or launching a new application on Cloud Platform, review the Temporarily unavailable features to ensure that you will not require them before they are available on Cloud Platform.
The following Cloud Platform dashboard and infrastructure features, settings, and modules are not supported on the current version of Cloud Platform, but will be added in an upcoming release:
Self-healing infrastructure to ensure that containers are constantly refreshed and unhealthy pods are automatically pruned
Invisible platform updates for most types of maintenance to reduce noise and maximize availability
Atomic code updates to ensure clean builds on new containers during every code deployment
Reduced deployment downtime and impact of deployment mistakes
Web layer software isolation to ensure that Drupal, Memcached, Cron, SSH, and Cloud Hooks always have the resources they need to operate performantly without interfering with each other
Optimized Memcached architecture to improve cache resiliency
Storage growth beyond 1 TB on file systems and databases
Easy access to historical logs with up to 30 days of logs available through the Cloud Platform user interface and Acquia’s Cloud API v2/v3
Dedicated pods for different services to optimize resource isolation and resiliency
Option for hosting applications in the same or different physical hosting locations
Dynamic real-time headless applications, multi-brand experiences with composable commerce, employee intranet with static sites
Provision to build, test, and deploy on the end-to-end platform for Drupal development
Default end-to-end encryption for all traffic in the Acquia infrastructure.
Cloud Platform is optimized for the current Drupal version. Applications running unsupported versions of Drupal might not operate as expected on Cloud Platform and may be adversely impacted by periodic platform updates.
Cloud Platform