AEM 6.5 AWS Multi-Region Migration Case Study

Key Outcomes & Performance Impact

99.99%

Global Uptime

Across 24 Global Markets

0 sec

Deployment Downtime

Blue/Green Automation

50%

Infrastructure Savings

Elastic Auto-Scaling

< 12 mins

Disaster Recovery RTO

RPO < 30 seconds

The Challenge

The financial institution ran legacy AEM 6.5 on physical on-premise servers. Peak stock trading volume and quarterly earnings releases frequently overloaded publisher nodes. Software updates required weekend maintenance windows resulting in 4 hours of scheduled downtime per release, violating strict banking SLA requirements and regulatory compliance standards.

Architectural Solution

We designed a resilient, multi-region AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform. Authoring environments were deployed in active-passive standby configurations with Oak Mongo replication, while Publisher tiers were backed by AWS Auto-Scaling Groups and Apache Dispatcher farms behind CloudFront WAF. Blue/Green release automation eliminated all maintenance downtime.

Implementation Highlights

✓ Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for 100% automated AWS environment provisioning.
✓ Auto-Scaling Publisher Farms responding dynamically to market volatility traffic spikes.
✓ Zero-Downtime Blue/Green deployments via AWS Application Load Balancers.
✓ FIPS 140-2 encryption & automated cross-region S3/Mongo disaster recovery.

Technology Stack & Infrastructure

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 AWS (EC2, EFS, S3, Aurora RDS, Route53) Terraform Infrastructure as Code Apache Dispatcher & Enterprise WAF Jenkins CI/CD & Dynatrace

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