Acquia Cloud Platform Features

 

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Managerial Considerations/Staffing
Team of cloud experts to architect your platform
3 fully trained security teams dedicated to securing the platform and implementing best practices
Expert Drupal support available 24/7/365
Team training (including yearly training on security best practices)
Simple, value-based pricing
Drupal Development Tools and Services
Low-code Drupal site builder included
Separate development, staging, and production environments
Automated code deployment across environments controlled by a drag-and-drop interface
Built in code security and performance quality testing
Build APIs to integrate your development platform with external systems
Code tests automatically run when you push code from development to staging environments to ensure code quality
Integration between development platform and third-party services
Automated synching between file systems and databases across all environments
Ready to use development environments deployed within minutes without installing any extra software
Built-in critical system health monitoring (99.95% SLA)
Built in infrastructure health insights (Stack Metrics)
Built-in Application Performance Monitoring (APM, New Relic Pro APM)
Fully Managed, Scalable Cloud Platform
Fully configured and maintained operating system
Fully configured and maintained ephemeral storage
Fully configured and maintained database servers
Fully configured and maintained persistent network file system with built-in replication and redundancy
Fully configured and maintained web servers (including Apache, PHP, and Drupal Application)
Fully automated server deployment to accommodate increasing traffic demands
Reverse proxy caching with Varnish
Fully configured and managed load balancing servers
Built-in CDN for optimal performance
Highly available across entire stack
LAMP stack availability monitoring
Fully managed database backups
Software updates (e.g. OS updates, security patches, bug fixes)
System Monitoring
LAMP stack availability monitoring
Database backup restoration tests and alerting for failed backups
Monitoring CPU stats (e.g. load time, user time, system time, I/O wait time, idle time, and CPU steal time)
Web server run state monitoring
Packet monitoring (e.g. dropped received, errors received, received overruns, errors transferred, dropped transferred, transferred overruns, and collisions)
PHP process and fatal error monitoring
MySQL availability monitoring
Varnish monitoring (e.g. client connections, dropped connections, client requests, cache hit rate, cache hit/pass, cache miss, backend fail, n_expired, and uptime)
Security Features
Multi-factor authentication
Built-in roles and credential
Real-time log streaming
IPv6 Support
Shell access via SSH
ClamAV support
GeoIP available
Apache mod_proxy support to improve LAMP security
Built-in security and performance optimization monitoring (Acquia Insight)
Drupal Steward Program member
Security Add-Ons
Advanced WAF with customizable WAF rules (layer 7)
Secure Virtual Private Cloud (Acquia Shield VPC)
Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Specify application access by IP address in the Cloud UI (Access Control List)
Centralize view of logs (Log Forwarding)
Leverage internal organizational security policies to authenticate users (Enterprise SSO)
Platform Security Audits
Yearly third party security audits including: malicious user testing, insider threat assessments, and spearphishing exercise
Monthly server and web application vulnerability scans
Monthly operating system scans
Monthly database and web application scans
DDoS Detection
Compliance
FedRAMP Authorized
PCI
HIPAA
ISO 27001
SOC 1 & SOC 2
GDPR
CSA STAR
FISMA
Drupal Application Maintenance and Security
Automatically track Drupal core updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
Automatically track Drupal module updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
Automatically track Drupal security updates and ensure they are administered to all applications
Vulnerability scans
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