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title: "Cache management"
date: "2026-02-05T12:58:16+00:00"
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Acquia Edge Standard uses a global **Content Delivery Network (CDN)** to accelerate your digital experiences. To store content across a global network of **Points of Presence (PoPs)**, Edge reduces latency and improves load times.

Navigation 
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In the Acquia Edge console, all cache-related controls and reporting are in the _Performance_ tab.

Managing your cache 
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To ensure that users refer to the latest version of your site, you can manually clear the CDN cache with the _Purge Cache_ tool.

### Purge methods

*   **Purge path**: Clears specific pages or assets by their file path. This is the most efficient method to use if you want to refresh specific content with no impact to the rest of your cache.
*   **Purge cache tag**: Clears content associated with specific system-generated tags. This is particularly useful for Drupal applications where a single content update affects multiple pages that share the same tag. Some examples are `sl36b and dh65`.
*   **Purge everything**: Clears the entire cache for all domains in your application. Use this for major site-wide updates or code deployments.
    *   Purge domains
    *   Purge application

### How to purge your cache 

Follow these steps to clear content from the Edge network:

1.  Log in to the Acquia Edge console and select the **Performance** tab.
2.  Select **Purge Cache** on the top right of the dashboard.
3.  Select one of the three radio buttons:
    *   Purge path
    *   Purge cache tag
    *   Purge everything
4.  Enter details for Path or Tag:
    *   If you selected _Purge path_, enter the relative URL/path, for example, `/about-us`.
    *   If you selected _Purge cache tag_, enter the specific tag string as provided by your application.
    *   If you selected _Purge everything_, select domains or applications, respectively.
5.  Select the domain or application and then click the blue **Purge** button at the bottom of the dialog box.
6.  Confirm on the confirmation dialog modal view.
7.  Select **Close** to return to the dashboard.

Note

The purge typically takes approximately 5 minutes to reach all global Edge nodes.

Best practices
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*   **Use** _**Path or Tag Purge**_ **when possible:** When you purge everything, a _Cache Miss_ error occurs for all subsequent traffic and the load on your Acquia Cloud platform is increased.
*   **Validation**: You must always configure the domain status if you want to use the _Purge_ feature.