Acquia Cloud Platform

Cloud IDE Features

 

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Faster Ramp-Up Time For Developers

New team members don’t have to spend a week or more setting up a local LAMP stack and setting up tools like Composer, Drush, and xDebug. Within a few minutes, developers will be ready to start writing code.

Reduced Maintenance

It doesn’t matter what your Operating System is or what software versions you’re running. You don’t need to spend time installing software or troubleshooting your local machine. That’s time you could be spending on building something valuable. Less time on menial tasks means more time to focus on what matters.

Better Quality Code

We give you tools to sniff, lint, and otherwise validate your code to ensure that you are following established best practices.

Faster Performance

IDEs have one job: to provide an excellent cloud based developer environment. They’re optimized for it and other applications have no effect on it’s performance.

Ready to Debug

Setting up debugging tools is so frustrating that often developers don’t do it. Cloud IDE comes pre-configured with debugging tools allowing developers to rapidly identify and resolve bugs.

Keep it SaaS, Keep it Safe

No need to grant system/admin privileges to developers on company or personal hardware or configure network/firewall exceptions. You can keep your machine and network safe and secure.

DIY vs Cloud IDE

Feature
DIY
DIY Text
Cloud IDE
Cloud IDE Text
Productivity

Time required to be productive

A few hours to several weeks

5-15 minutes

Optimized Drupal environment

Manual

Optimized AWS networking

Dedicated hardware per IDE

Firewall exceptions

Manual

Not Needed

Non-admin access sufficient

Low bandwidth requirements

Developer Tools

Source code editor & IDE

Git / Git UI integration

PHP Code Sniffer

Manual

Composer / Composer 2

Manual

Drush Launcher

Manual

Unlimited builds 

Manual

Preconfigured Xdebug

Manual

Node.js / NPM / NVM

Manual

Ruby / RVM

Manual

Preconfigured Chromedriver

Manual

Built-in site preview & terminal

Pre-installed Drupal Plugins

Security

Environment isolation

Manual

Role-based access

Automated user data sanitization

Single sign-on

Code, database and files synchronization

Manual

Prod-matched PHP configuration

Customizable PHP & MySQL

Acquia CLI

Manual

Preconfigured Drupal best practices

Manual

Auto-configured database connection

Manual

DIY vs Cloud IDE

DIY
DIY Text
Cloud IDE
Cloud IDE Text
Productivity

Time required to be productive

A few hours to several weeks

5-15 minutes

Optimized Drupal environment

Manual

Optimized AWS networking

Dedicated hardware per IDE

Firewall exceptions

Manual

Not Needed

Non-admin access sufficient

Low bandwidth requirements

Developer Tools

Source code editor & IDE

Git / Git UI integration

PHP Code Sniffer

Manual

Composer / Composer 2

Manual

Drush Launcher

Manual

Unlimited builds 

Manual

Preconfigured Xdebug

Manual

Node.js / NPM / NVM

Manual

Ruby / RVM

Manual

Preconfigured Chromedriver

Manual

Built-in site preview & terminal

Pre-installed Drupal Plugins

Security

Environment isolation

Manual

Role-based access

Automated user data sanitization

Single sign-on

Code, database and files synchronization

Manual

Prod-matched PHP configuration

Customizable PHP & MySQL

Acquia CLI

Manual

Preconfigured Drupal best practices

Manual

Auto-configured database connection

Manual