ON-PREMISE TO AEM CLOUD

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud is a cloud-based version of Adobe’s content management system – Adobe Experience Manager. It’s a powerful platform which helps organizations with web content management, digital asset management and online marketing.

AEM as a Cloud offers features such as easy scalability, global distribution of content and assets, brand consistency across channels, real-time optimization and personalization of experiences, and rich Integrations with third-party systems.

Another important aspect is that for AEM as a Cloud Service, the Adobe team manages the platform’s infrastructure, security, and updates. Thanks to this, your team can focus on building an exceptional customer experience instead of worrying about server maintenance, scalability, or security patches.

Migration to Adobe Experience Manager Cloud can bring your business several advantages:

• Automation and Flexibility Benefits

AEM as a Cloud allows quick and easily automated processes such as deployment, testing, or content delivery. You can reduce the time-consuming manual work and increase efficiency. In addition, AEM as a cloud offers businesses flexibility as you can choose where your data center is located. You can adjust the data storage to your company’s needs and ensure that your and your customers’ data is stored safely and in accordance with the law.

• Security and Reliability Advantages

AEM as a Cloud offers enhanced security due to its integrated cloud and software development infrastructure. With AEM as a Cloud running 24/7, companies can get their customer facing applications up quickly, reducing operational costs. By  leveraging the same highly secure and reliable cloud technology, you can trust that their data and applications are safe from cyber threats.

• Scalability Solutions for Growing Needs

With AEM as a Cloud, you can scale quickly and easily with their growing needs. Its elastic computing capabilities allow companies to quickly ramp up their applications and scalability solutions to remain competitive in dynamic markets. By using the cloud infrastructure, companies can reduce costs associated with dedicated hardware upgrades, maintenance, and license fees. Additionally, your team can rely on AEM as a Cloud’s security measures, which include data encryption, regular scans, and intrusion detection technology.

In AEM, components allow you to create online content easily.

Foundation Components were prepared to facilitate building a standard website. They formed a subset of pre-built components for a standard AEM installation. Foundation Components were dedicated to a specific version of AEM.

Core Components were first introduced in AEM 6.3. The idea was to provide users with reliable and expandable base components using the latest technologies and best practices. The core components are hosted on GitHub and are available for the various versions of AEM they are compatible with, including AEM as a Cloud Service.

Core Components are cloud-ready. If you are still using Foundation Components to migrate to the cloud, you must use AEM Modernization Tools to replace your old components with Core Components.

Currently, Adobe is focused on developing and adding new features to the core components. Almost all Foundation components have been deprecated with AEM 6.5.

AEM Assets is a digital asset management (DAM) system that enables users to share and distribute digital assets. You can manage, store, and access images, videos, documents, audio clips, and rich media for web use, print, and digital distribution.

Adobe Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service offers a cloud-native, PaaS solution for businesses to not only perform their Digital Asset Management and Dynamic Media operations with speed and impact but also use next-generation intelligent capabilities, such as AI/ML, from within a system that is always current, always available, and always learning.

AEM on-premise is installed and hosted on a company’s servers. In that case, you have full control of your infrastructure (hardware, operating system, database, AEM application). Full control also means full responsibility. Your team is responsible for hardware and software maintenance and upgrades, system security, and performance management. The company must invest upfront in hardware and software licenses to achieve these goals. In addition, you need to plan ongoing maintenance and support costs in your budget.

AEM, as a cloud service, is hosted and managed by Adobe in the cloud. This means that Adobe takes care of the complete infrastructure. Adobe regularly provides updates and fixes to the system to keep it safe and up-to-date. Regarding cost, AEM as a cloud service is priced on a subscription basis – the company pays a monthly fee based on its usage.

You can find it at Adobe official website by the link https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/overview/introduction.html

Cloud Manager is an integral part of Adobe’s AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) offering. Cloud Manager provides a fully-featured Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipeline enabling organizations to automatically build, test, and deploy their AEM applications to the Adobe Cloud. Cloud Manager is available to Adobe Managed Services customers using AEM 6.4 or later.