Acquia Cloud Pro case studies
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The Acquia Certified Cloud Pro is a professional credential for people who build, operate, and support Drupal sites on Acquia's managed cloud hosting platform. It suits site builders, Drupal developers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads who work day to day with Acquia Cloud environments, deployment pipelines, and production operations. Exam content is organized around six domains: platform architecture and environments; deployment workflow and code management; configuration management and environment parity; performance, caching, and search; security, access control, and compliance; and monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response. Because the domains lean heavily on operational judgment rather than trivia, preparation should combine hands-on work in a real Acquia Cloud subscription with review of the platform's own product and support documentation. The Acquia Cloud Pro case studies are 5 cases and about 2,798 words.
1Staging Cache Bleed into Production After a Hotfix
A Drupal site runs on Acquia Cloud with a Dev, Stage, and Prod environment. Prod sits behind Acquia Cloud CDN and uses Varnish in front of a 3-web-node cluster; anonymous pages are cached aggressively (TTL 6 hours).
522 words, about 3 min2Config Drift Between Stage and Prod After a Manual UI Change
A team uses the standard Acquia workflow: code moves Dev → Stage → Prod via git tags and Acquia Cloud pipelines, and configuration is exported/imported with Drupal's config management. During an incident, an engineer enabled a new module and changed a view's pager settings directly in the Prod UI to restore service quickly.
621 words, about 3 min3Search Results Degraded After Reindex on a Large Catalog
An Acquia Cloud site with roughly 400,000 indexed nodes uses Acquia Search (Solr). After a content model change, the team ran a full reindex during business hours.
542 words, about 3 min4Least-Privilege Failure in a Multi-Team Acquia Cloud Org
Agency A manages three client sites in one Acquia Cloud organization. Each client has its own application and Prod/Stage/Dev environments.
557 words, about 3 min5Intermittent 502s Under Load Traced to PHP Workers and Autoscaling
A Drupal site on Acquia Cloud has three web nodes in Prod. During a marketing push, traffic triples for about 40 minutes.
556 words, about 3 min