Is it still possible (or advisable) to host Adobe Experience Manager outside of Adobe? Veteran AEM Ops guys Tad Reeves from Arbory Digital and Joey Smith from Rightpoint discuss what’s NOT in the marketing materials about what you should consider when deciding where your AEM workload goes.
0:00 – Intros 0:30 – Is self-hosted AEM still a thing? 1:00 – What is AEM and how does it work? 6:19 – Gotchas of a More-Complicated AEM Environment 14:30 – What AEM as a Cloud Service Solves 18:57 – Assets in the Cloud Service is Awesome 23:20 – AEM 6.x Upgrades are Pure Pain 25:45 – Pros & Cons of AEM Cloud Service 27:35 – Continuous Integration considerations 30:10 – Why isn’t everyone on AEM Cloud Service? 32:35 – Let’s Talk About Data Residency 36:18 – Hosting in China 40:35 – Weighing the actual cost of support 43:10 – Devops Pipeline and SLDC 49:00 – Monitoring & Log Aggregation 53:38 – Operational Support Structure 56:20 – Support on top of Adobe Support 1:00:30 – Wrapping Up & Cord Tools Plug