Is Self-Hosted AEM Still a Thing ? - Arbory Digital Podcast Ep2
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