Is Self-Hosted AEM Still a Thing?
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.
Key moments in the discussion:
- 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
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Featured on This Podcast

Tad Reeves
Principal Architect at Arbory Digital
AEM Architect & DevOps guy with 14 years experience on AEM/CQ and 25+ years in systems infrastructure.

Joey Smith
Senior Director of Engineering at Rightpoint
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