AEM as a Cloud Service

For the last few years, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) has been available as On-prem and Adobe Managed Services (AMS)

There are intrinsic differences between these previous approaches and AEM as a Cloud Service:

• Architecture
• Upgrades
• Cloud Manager
• Onboarding
• Developing
• Operations and Performance
• Identity Management
• Authoring User Interface
• AEM Sites
• AEM Assets

AEM as a Cloud Service Benefits

Version Less AEM: 

No need to worry about upgrading to the latest AEM version. When a new version is available, we can upgrade from the Cloud Manager CI/CD pipeline which is fully automated.

Quick Time to Market: 

AEM as a Cloud Service assists you in quickly delivering the products, services, and experiences faster without developing customized content management systems.

Auto-scalable: 

It can scale automatically based on traffic and operations. It requires less support and maintenance efforts.

Separation of code and content: 

Custom code and configurations are clubbed into the AEM base image which is then used to create multiple Author and Publish nodes. The changes to the code and configurations are made only through CI/CD pipelines in Cloud Manager.

 Security: Industry standard security measures will be taken care of. 

References:

1. https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-cloud-service/overview/what-is-new-and-different.html
2. https://www.nextrow.com/adobe-aem/adobe-experience-manager-as-a-cloud-service

Update Content using Launches in AEM

Launches in AEM enable you to efficiently develop content for a future release. A launch is created to allow you to make content changes for future publication (while maintaining current pages). After editing the launch page, you need to promote the Launch. So the edited launch page will be published on the live date.

For example, you have an online store and you need to display promotional info x-mas and New Year. To do this, you can create a launch page and set it to publish on 25th Dec. Create another launch page for New Year.

Creating a Launch:

Launch can be created from two consoles in AEM

1. From Navigation -> Sites -> Create button ->Launch 
2. From Tools -> Sites -> Launch

Navigate to Sites, create a Launch