How to Migrate Your Content from Adobe Managed Services to AEM as a Cloud Service

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a cloud service has proven to be a game changer for enterprises using AEM platform and Adobe services. By using AEM cloud services marketing teams can concentrate on innovations and building great experiences much more efficiently. The time saved in planning product upgrades is huge!

Cloud service plays a significant role in bridging modern features and scalability of AEM with the agility of cloud-native frameworks. This facilitates organisations to fulfil user expectations with ease.

We have created this step-by-step guide on how to migrate from Adobe Managed Services (AMS) to AEM as a Cloud Service. This article explains the phased approach that should be taken for this migration.

Launch Process

Adobe has developed a Content Transfer Tool to pass current source content from existing AEM instance (on-premises or AMS) to the target AEM Cloud Service instance.

This tool also transfers users or groups instantaneously.

The new version of the content transfer tool offers benefits such as:

• Self-service method to pull out a migration set only once and share it into multiple environments parallelly.
• Better user experience through loading states, guardrails, and error handling.
• Ingestion logs are preserved and used during troubleshooting.

Pre-requisites

• AEM 6.4+ versions
• 20 TB of repository size
• 25GB Max of total Lucene index size

Setup and Configurations

Content transfer tool is downloaded as a zip file from the Software Distribution Portal. It is deployed as a package via package manager.

Steps

1. Login to experience.adobe.com and go to Experience Manager

2. Go to Cloud Acceleration Manager – Launch button

3. Create your first project

4. Give the Name and description and click on Create. Your project would be created as shown below

5. Clicking on the created project will open the project screen and select the content transfer – click on review

6. Click on create migration set as shown below

7. Provide name and description and click on create.

8. Once after the creation, click on 3 dots and copy extraction key


9. Go to Software Distribution Portal, search, and download content transfer tool package
   

   Make sure you download the latest version.

10. Upload and install the package content-transfer.all-2.0.12.zip on your instance package manager.
11. On your instance Go to Tools – Operations – content migration – content transfer

12. Click on content transfer – create migration set and paste the extraction key which is copied from the cloud acceleration manager

13. This verifies the key and shows the validity after entering the value.
14. Provide the path which needs to be migrated and click on save, which establishes connection between source and target.
    For ex: /content/we-retail
    or
    /content/dam/wknd-events
    in this case.

15. Select the migration set and click on extract.

16. Verify your details in the pop-up with your path and click on extract.

17. Extraction will take some minutes and status will be shown as finished in the extraction status.

18. Go to your cloud acceleration manager in cloud storefront sandbox and verify the migration

19. Paths would be shown when you close the pop-up.
20. Click on Ingestion Jobs – click on New Ingestion – provide the required checkmark values – click create

21. Pick the migration set

22. Select the required server of your environment on sandbox and click on Ingest.

23. You will be able to view migrated content on your AEM cloud service.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that any new application installation brings its own set of challenges.

For a smooth migration to AEM Cloud as a service, you need a team of AEM engineers who are adept at planning the migration end-to-end and handling dynamic situations. If either of them is not in sync then it might lead to ad hoc problems, complete halt in the process functioning, or mismanagement of resources, time and money.

At Embitel, we have a team of skilled AEM specialists with expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, security, scalable architecture and tools, all types of cloud migrations, and practical risk and compliance management. Reach out to us at sales@embitel.com to explore our AEM success stories.