Acquia Cloud Next is the next major upgrade to Acquia’s Cloud Platform, and it is scheduled for release in 2021. During the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta, a Trial Services Program, participating subscribers are granted temporary access to feature-limited sandbox environments which can be used for functional and performance testing.
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Cloud Platform subscribers interested in testing the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta release should contact their Account Manager for more information.
The Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta program is not available to Cloud Platform Professional or Site Factory subscribers.
Acquia Cloud Next technologies provide even better performance, scalability, and resiliency during periods of high load. Powered by an even more advanced server less architecture than the current version of the Acquia Cloud Platform, Acquia Cloud Next ensures applications can scale even faster to satisfy the demands of high traffic events and resource intensive processes.
Acquia Cloud Next leverages containerization to provide superior performance and resiliency to Drupal applications and related services. As a result, services previously available on the same dedicated infrastructure have been re-architected to operate more efficiently in isolation, even on non-production environments.
On Acquia Cloud Next, containers have been dedicated to each of the following system processes:
This level of resource isolation ensures the key services associated with delivering your Drupal application are able to utilize the cloud capacity they require without adversely impacting each other, even during periods of increased activity.
As a result of the newer technologies in use on Acquia Cloud Next, some Cloud Platform features will behave differently once an environment has been upgraded, including:
Acquia Cloud Next is currently optimized for Drupal 8 applications. Drupal 7 applications are not currently supported, and Drupal 9 applications may not behave as expected at this time.
The Private Beta version of Acquia Cloud Next may not yet include all PHP libraries, SSH commands, and other expected software or customizations. Throughout the Private Beta Program, we will continue to add known missing features to maximize the compatibility of existing applications with Acquia Cloud Next. If a site running on your Private Beta environment is not functioning properly as the result of a missing dependency, note this in your communications with the administrators of the Private Beta Program.
This section will be updated throughout the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta Program with any new issues identified during testing.
In the event that any unexpected product issues or problems with your Private Beta site are discovered during the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta Program, file a medium-urgency ticket with Acquia Support using the product Acquia Beta Programs in the ticket creation form. The issue will be reviewed as quickly as possible during regular business hours, and normal contractual response time SLAs will not apply.
All non-diagnostic feedback and communications related to Acquia Cloud Next, however, should remain in the primary ticket associated with the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta Program.
For participants in the Acquia Cloud Next Private Beta Program who are being provided with blank sandbox applications, additional steps may be required to test your existing application on Acquia Cloud Next.
While this documentation can be used to import an existing application onto your new Acquia Cloud Next sandbox environments, the following alternative steps-by-step instructions may be used as an alternative method:
It is important to remember that many applications will not behave as expected when first cloned to a new application in this fashion as changes to your application’s code may be required to work with the new codebase or environment. Further, some sites will only operate properly when a custom domain is assigned to the new environment and configured correctly both with your DNS provider and within the site’s code or settings.
All significant changes to Acquia Cloud Next during the Private Beta period will be listed in this section: