Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, what is it?
If you are already familiar with Adobe’s CMS – AEM – you might wonder what this brand new cloud-native CMS is all about.
The most significant change to the AEM ecosystem in the last ten years has been the introduction of AEM as a cloud service. This is the next evolution of AEM On-Premise and AEM Managed Services.
Here are the most frequently asked questions about Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
How does Adobe Experience Manager work as a cloud service?
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service is Adobe’s new generation of software-as-a-service for experience management.
Powered by Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), it offers outstanding content management (CMS) and digital asset management (DAM) capabilities.
What are the benefits of Adobe Experience Manager as a cloud service?
AEM Cloud, AEM Cloud Service, or AEM CS are also written as Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
As a cloud service, what are the main advantages of Adobe Experience Manager?
With AEM as a Cloud Service, your company owns a real cloud solution for its experience management needs.
It There are many advantages to using it:
- 99.99% of the time, your website is available.
- There is no need to perform product updates since you are always using the latest version of the CMS.
- Vertically and horizontally, the solution scales automatically.
- Low ownership costs are associated with the solution.
- Usage-based licensing is used.
- CMSs are more secure because they are always up to date with the latest security standards.
Is AEM as a Cloud Service designed for complex websites?
In the coming years, Adobe will standardize experience management with AEM as a Cloud Service.
This product was released in late 2019. Now (March 2021) there is a small difference between AEM as a Cloud Service and AEM On-Premise or AEM Managed Services.
Currently, complex scenarios with AEM as the Cloud Service may be more difficult to implement.
However, in the medium term, AEM as a Cloud Service will be able to manage any use cases, websites and integrations.
AEM as a Cloud Service does not yet support what features?
AEM as a Cloud Service does not support the following features (May 2021):
Classic UI is no longer available on AEM as a Cloud Service
Developer mode in page editor
AEM sites, assets, screens, and forms are now available in the cloud and represent the core capabilities of Adobe Experience Manager.
If you do e-commerce, AEM Commerce is also available. First, your Experience Manager cloud service must be provided with the Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) add-on. The CIF plugin is an add-on module on the AEM Site.
AEM as a Cloud Service does not yet support what features?
In May 2021, AEM will not support the following features:
Classic UI is no longer available on AEM as a Cloud Service
Developer mode in page editor
AEM sites, assets, screens, and forms are now available in the cloud and represent the core capabilities of Adobe Experience Manager.
If you do e-commerce, AEM Commerce is also available. First, your Experience Manager cloud service must be provided with the Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) add-on. The CIF plugin is an add-on module on the AEM Site.
AEM consists of what main components?
AEM Core Components is a library of best practice components designed to accelerate website development using out-of-the-box capabilities instead of custom development.
The library includes five template components (eg Pages, Navigation, Breadcrumb) and more than 25 page builder components (eg Titles, Text, Images, Forms, Experience Snippets).
Adobe continues to add more components to the library.