AEM as a Cloud Service: Moving from on-prem or Adobe Managed Infrastructure to AEM Cloud

Balaji Canjapalli Shivakumar

AEM as a Cloud Service: Moving from on-prem or Adobe Managed Infrastructure to AEM Cloud

[Following is an excerpt from an ebook by Credera’s Director of Experience Management—download the ebook to read more.]

AEM as a Cloud Service is a next-generation platform designed to leverage the power of cloud technologies to develop and host Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions.

Cloud power and microservice architecture allow it to auto-scale to handle spikes of load, then scale down when the increased load is over, eliminating worry over right-sizing your infrastructure. Content is delivered quickly and efficiently on a global scale using a built-in content delivery network (CDN).

Benefits of AEM as a Cloud Service

AEM as a Cloud Service accelerates time-to-value and provides flexibility and security along the way. Here are the primary advantages of moving to AEM Cloud:

Highly available

This new offering makes itself highly available, as continuous delivery and continuous integration for updates is now provided with zero downtime. Failover strategy is built-in, as cloud power provides all the required protection against any disaster or failures.

Auto-updates

Cloud service, along with new supported architecture, allows us to make the latest innovations available as soon as they are ready to be rolled out. Rolling out product updates is now a continuous process, eliminating the hard work of planning and executing upgrades, which sometimes take years.

Scalability

Cloud power allows you to scale your servers as needed during peak hours of traffic and automatically scale down when the peak is over. The new asset microservices architecture takes the massive jobs of asset ingestion and processing out of your core AEM server. Assets are now stored on an external shared datastore, fully eliminating the need to replicate heavy asset binaries.

Asset microservice can be scaled separately from the core AEM instance if increased asset processing is needed. Assets serving load is also taken out of the primary AEM instance. Both Author and Publish instances can be scaled as needed.

AI enhancements

The next-generation platform comes with AI and machine learning (ML) as default features. It provides native access to the Adobe AI intelligence platform, Sensei, and AI-driven capabilities like Adobe Express and Firefly services enhance content creation and delivery. These built-in smart features automate tasks like image editing and personalized content recommendations, which streamlines workflows and boosts productivity.

Planning for migration to AEM Cloud

If you’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud, a few off-the-shelf tools are available to make that process go smoother and faster:

Best Practices Analyzer

This tool provides a report for business and technology teams to help them understand all potential areas in the applications that require changes or refactoring to move to AEM Cloud. It helps accelerate your cloud service readiness assessment.

Cloud Acceleration Manager (CAM)

This tool for AEM Cloud migration streamlines the transition from on-premise to cloud by providing automated tools and best practice guidelines. It ensures a smooth, efficient migration process, minimizing downtime and maximizing performance.

Content Transfer Tool

This tool transfers content from the source AEM instance (on-premise or Adobe Managed Services) into the Target AEM cloud service instance.

Dispatcher Converter

This converts existing AMS dispatcher configurations to AEM Cloud dispatcher configurations.

AEM Modernization Tools

These tools modernize legacy AEM implementations to the latest features AEM has to offer.

Workflow Migration Tool

This migrates asset-processing workflows to processing profiles for the Asset Compute Service.

The bottom line

With one of the largest and deepest Adobe-certified digital consulting teams in the world, Credera has unparalleled experience in AEM migrations and implementations. We’re also one of the select few companies to have earned Adobe Global Platinum Solution Partner status, Adobe’s highest partner status, distinguished by a specialized team of certified experts across four product groups in a minimum of two continents.

Schedule a call with our specialists to see how AEM as a Cloud Service could benefit your organization.