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Amazon Web Services & Adobe Experience ManagerKam Radhakrishnan | Senior Consultant | Adobe

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AEM UI

Oak & Plugins

REST

Microkernel (Java)

OSGi

AEM Internal Architecture

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TAR

Presentation Tier

Middle Tier

Data Tier

Traditional Web Application

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How does it work?

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InvalidationCache

Invalidation

Author Server

Dispatcher Servers

Publish Servers

Elastic Load Balancer

Internet Users

Marketing Users

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Development Setup

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Advantages Disadvantages

• Easy to setup • Not fault tolerant.

• Built and re-built in minutes • Cannot scale on Author and runtime.

• Best for learning & practice and ideal developer setup. • Not suitable for production.

AZ#1

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Sydney

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Highly Available Architecture

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Advantages Disadvantages

• Highly scalable runtime with Auto Scaling Group based on CloudWatch stats.

• Author cannot scale.

• TarMK offers optimal performance. • Manual failover on Author

• Author Servers are fault tolerant • At any given point in time we have few servers that are idle.

AZ#1

AZ#2

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Auto Scaling Group

Auto Scaling Group

Sydney

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Digital Assets(DAM) Heavy Architecture

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AZ#2

AZ#1

Sydney

Advantages Disadvantages

• Best for customer who have a large datastore that runs in terabytes.

• Cannot scale on Author.

• Offers failover and DR in a different region. • At any given point in time we have few servers that are idle.

• Supports binary-less replication for storage efficiencies, all author and Publish point to one copy in S3.

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Auto Scaling Group

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Distributed Author Architecture

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PGA

AZ#1

AZ#1

Sydney

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Group

Auto Scaling Group

Advantages Disadvantages

• Best when there are large numbers of authors that need to be supported across geographies.

• Required skillset in MongoDB to optimize and administer the servers.

• Architecture offers resilience and scalability and automatic failover with Author clustering and mongo dB replica sets.

• Performance is not as great as Tar Micro Kernel.

• Runtime still runs on Tar Micro Kernel which gives good performance for customers accessing the website.

• More servers to monitor and manage.

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Singapore

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User Generated Content Architecture

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AZ#2

AZ#1

Sydney

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Auto Scaling Group

Auto Scaling Group

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Advantages Disadvantages

• Ability to handle UGC content on Runtime. • MongoDB skill set required for ongoing maintenance.

• Horizontal scalability on Runtime • Performance is not as good as Tar Micro Kernel.

• Moderation on Publish servers. • More servers to monitor and manage.

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Q & A

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