Upgrade Your CMS to the Cloud
— Without Disrupting Your Business
Move from your legacy CMS version to a modern, scalable cloud platform with a controlled migration strategy, minimal downtime, and zero-loss data migration.
LEGACY CMS ENVIRONMENT
AEM 6.x / Managed Services / Hybrid Estate
AEM UPGRADES UPGRADE ENGINE
Automated Schema Sync & Module Porting
MODERN CLOUD CMS
Latest Supported Release • Auto-Scaling Cloud
Modernize Adobe Experience Manager without losing the context that makes it valuable.
A practical upgrade path for teams running AEM on premises, in Managed Services, or in a hybrid estate. We make the current state visible before recommending a target state.
What we make visible
Is Your CMS Holding Your Business Back?
Legacy CMS platforms become expensive to run, difficult to maintain, and precarious to scale. Outdated versions leave enterprise teams trapped between urgent security needs and upgrade anxiety.
Outdated CMS
Running an aging CMS version can increase security exposure, reduce access to vendor fixes, and make maintenance harder to plan.
Legacy Infrastructure
Traditional bare-metal or unoptimized VPS hosting fails during peak campaign traffic spikes, lacks elasticity, and incurs excessive operational overhead.
Custom Module Dependencies
Years of custom themes, unmaintained community extensions, and third-party plugins make routine version upgrades feel unpredictable and hazardous.
Performance Issues
Slow page load times, unoptimized database queries, and obsolete caching layers drag down Google Core Web Vitals and hurt checkout conversion rates.
Integration Challenges
ERP (SAP, NetSuite), CRM, and payment gateways are tied into fragile legacy webhooks and outdated API protocols that block new business initiatives.
Accumulated Technical Debt
Quick fixes and legacy workarounds compound over time, making every new feature rollout exponentially slower, riskier, and more expensive to execute.
Modernize Your CMS Without Starting Over
You don't need to burn millions rebuilding your entire digital ecosystem from scratch. We analyze your existing codebase, database, customizations, and integrations, then engineer a seamless, controlled migration path into a high-performance cloud environment.
- ✕Outdated CMS CoreLegacy version with end-of-life PHP runtimes and unpatched security vulnerabilities.
- ✕Legacy Bare-Metal / Fixed VPSOver-provisioned idle servers that choke under high-concurrency traffic spikes.
- ✕Fragile Custom ModulesDirect core modifications and untracked plugins that break standard updates.
- ✕Heavy Unindexed DatabaseBloated tables causing slow checkouts, locking tables, and long backup times.
AEM Upgrades MIGRATION
- ✓Latest Supported CMS ReleaseSupported AEM release, current security posture, maintainable bundles, and an operating model your team can run.
- ✓Auto-Scaling Cloud InfrastructureContainerized micro-services (AWS / Azure / GCP) with automated load distribution.
- ✓Optimized, Refactored ModulesClean, documented extension architecture aligned with modern dependency standards.
- ✓High-Speed Redis & Database ClustersMeasured performance improvements with optimized indexing and edge caching where it fits.
The AEM upgrade surface, made visible
An AEM upgrade touches more than a version number. We connect platform, content, code, delivery, and operations so every workstream has a clear reason and validation path.
CMS Core & Dependencies
We assess the AEM release, OSGi bundles, repository structure, APIs, and deployment constraints before planning a move to a supported target.
Tested Against Real Enterprise Workloads
Every upgrade is validated in a suitable non-production environment against agreed regression and acceptance criteria before production cutover.
What Your Business Gets After the Upgrade
Upgrading your CMS is not just an IT maintenance task — it is a direct growth accelerator that protects your customer experience, secures revenue, and scales your brand.
A clearer security posture
Bring release support, patch planning, access controls, and security review into the upgrade conversation.
Measured performance
Establish a baseline, remove known bottlenecks, and validate improvements against the journeys that matter to your business.
Elastic Cloud Scalability
Plan scaling, resilience, observability, and operating responsibilities around your traffic profile and change windows.
Lower Operational Overhead
Identify avoidable infrastructure and maintenance overhead, then prioritize improvements that can be measured after delivery.
Seamless Modern Integrations
Map the APIs, identity flows, analytics, search, and commerce connections around your AEM estate before changing contracts.
Future-Ready Architecture
Leave a maintainable delivery path with documented decisions, repeatable checks, and a backlog for future improvements.
A Controlled Upgrade From Assessment to Go-Live
We eliminate unpredictability with a battle-tested seven-step engineering pipeline designed to safeguard your business continuity, customer accounts, and revenue streams.
Deep Architecture Audit
We conduct an automated and manual inspection of your CMS core, third-party extensions, custom code, database health, integrations, and server infrastructure.
Not Sure Which AEM Upgrade Route Fits?
Get a focused preliminary review of your current CMS environment. Understand the likely migration complexity, key dependencies, and the next useful decision—without committing to a delivery plan.
WHAT OUR ARCHITECTS AUDIT:
Identify release constraints, deprecated APIs, and compatibility risks
Review custom code, templates, workflows, and authoring dependencies
Map content models, DAM assets, tags, and references for migration
Understand repository structure, indexes, and environment differences
Map identity, analytics, search, commerce, and API dependencies
Compare hosting, dispatcher, deployment, and operating requirements
Establish a baseline for publishing, delivery, and cache behavior
Document access, patching, secrets, and governance requirements for validation
Patterns we use to make AEM change manageable
Examples of the artifacts, decisions, and validation steps that help teams move from an unclear estate to a workable upgrade path.
Version upgrade with inherited customizations
Repository, bundles, templates, and release constraints
- ›Inventory repository structure and bundles
- ›Prove the highest-risk changes in a non-production path
- ›Document acceptance criteria and rollback decisions
- ›Prepare an operational handover
- Compatibility findings recorded
- Proof-of-path build available
- Release decisions made explicit
- Validation evidence ready for review
Content and DAM migration planning
Content models, assets, tags, and references
- ›Map content models and asset metadata
- ›Identify tags, references, and workflow dependencies
- ›Define migration scripts and reconciliation checks
- ›Create an author acceptance plan
- Migration scope is traceable
- Exceptions are visible early
- Content validation is shared
- Authors have a review path
AEM as a Cloud Service readiness
Code, dispatcher, pipelines, integrations, and operations
- ›Assess cloud-specific code and dispatcher constraints
- ›Map deployment, identity, analytics, and search dependencies
- ›Compare target operating responsibilities
- ›Sequence a staged delivery roadmap
- Readiness gaps prioritized
- Target options compared
- Dependencies assigned owners
- Next decision has a clear evidence base
Built for Modern Cloud Infrastructure
We map a target architecture around your AEM estate, traffic profile, integrations, and operational capabilities, then validate the assumptions in stages.
EDGE NETWORK & GLOBAL CDN
Cloudflare Enterprise / Fastly / AWS CloudFront
ELASTIC LOAD BALANCING (ALB)
Layer 7 Smart Routing & Health Checks
AUTO-SCALING APP NODES (EKS / GKE)
Cloud-ready AEM runtime with staged deployments and explicit rollback decisions
DISTRIBUTED REDIS CACHE
High-IOPS Session & Full Page Storage
MANAGED AURORA DB CLUSTER
Primary Writer + Multi-AZ Read Replicas
Your Existing Integrations Don't Have to Go Away
Upgrades shouldn't break your mission-critical third-party ecosystem. We audit, test, and safely migrate your surrounding ERP, CRM, payment, and logistics integrations with zero disruption to your daily operations.
Enterprise ERP & Order Routing
Preserve automated bi-directional order sync, live inventory stock updates, and B2B pricing tiers.
Payment Gateways & Wallets
Map payment authentication, tokenization, checkout dependencies, and the ownership of each integration.
Enterprise Search & Discovery
Plan search indexing, autocomplete, faceting, and content synchronization around the journeys your team measures.
CRM & Customer Loyalty
Real-time customer event streaming, loyalty points synchronization, and post-purchase automation.
Logistics, Shipping & WMS
Automated dispatch label generation, real-time freight rate calculation, and track & trace webhooks.
Single Sign-On & Custom APIs
Enterprise employee/customer SSO authentication and secure decoupled headless API endpoints.
Why Businesses Trust AEM Upgrades With Critical Upgrades
Generalist agencies treat upgrades as an afterthought. At AEM Upgrades, CMS modernization, database migration, and cloud re-platforming are our core engineering focus.
Deep CMS Platform Mastery
We focus on the repository structure, customizations, content dependencies, and release constraints that make AEM upgrades difficult to reason about.
Cloud-Native Specialization
We assess the cloud target against your content, integrations, environments, and team capabilities instead of assuming one infrastructure pattern fits every estate.
Methodical Migration Discipline
We make the work repeatable with inventories, staged proofs, acceptance criteria, validation checks, and a documented decision path.
Zero Business Disruption
We plan cutovers around business constraints, rehearsals, validation evidence, and an agreed rollback decision.
Choose the Right Way to Modernize
Whether you need a turn-key fixed-price upgrade, a deep discovery audit, or an embedded engineering squad, we tailor our delivery model to your team's exact requirements.
Fixed-Scope Upgrade
A scoped engagement for standard CMS version bumps with clear module boundaries and agreed delivery checkpoints.
Assessment + Phased Migration
We start with a thorough technical discovery and dependency audit, followed by a modular, phased migration that isolates risks step-by-step.
Dedicated Upgrade Team
An embedded pod of senior CMS architects, DevOps engineers, and QA specialists working alongside your internal team to execute complex migrations.
Ongoing Support & Hypercare
Operational support, security patch planning, performance tuning, and response expectations agreed for your upgraded platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about staging environments, custom extensions, or rollback decisions? Here is how we make the modernization path explicit.
Ready to Modernize Your CMS?
Find out what it takes to upgrade your platform with zero business disruption. Request a preliminary technical assessment or talk directly with our Senior CMS Upgrade Architects.