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AEM Edge Delivery Services Migration
Leave the legacy stack behind without losing what worked: audited inventory, parallel validation, phased cutover. Delivered by Adobe-certified Edge Delivery specialists.
Overview
Edge Delivery migration, done properly
Edge Delivery Services serves content from the edge with document-based or headless authoring, routinely achieving 100 Lighthouse scores and shortening the path from edit to publish. Moving platforms is a rare chance to shed old problems — or to import them.
What makes Edge Delivery migration its own discipline is the platform's specific failure surface — real User Monitoring and experimentation built in behaves differently in production than in documentation, and shortcuts around publish pipeline and preview environment setup surface months later as trust-eroding gaps that are expensive to unwind. The Edge Delivery scope below encodes both kinds of lesson: the launches that worked, and the rescues that taught us why others didn't.
Scope
What's included
- Data mapping and transformation design
- Parallel-run validation and reconciliation
- Phased cutover with rollback plan
- Post-migration verification and optimization
Our approach
Edge Delivery expertise applied
- Block library development and design-system mapping
- Authoring workflow setup in Drive or SharePoint
- Migration of priority templates and content
- RUM, experimentation and performance budgets
- Publish pipeline and preview environment setup
The specifics
What migration means for Edge Delivery
Migrations to Edge Delivery come from classic AEM, WordPress and static stacks. Content maps to documents and blocks, templates get rethought rather than ported, and the SEO migration — URLs, redirects, metadata, structured data — is engineered to preserve equity. The typical outcome pairs dramatically better Core Web Vitals with a content team that publishes faster.
Whatever the engagement shape, Edge Delivery work answers to the same outcomes: lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform; let marketers publish without a developer in the loop; reduce delivery infrastructure cost and complexity. At least one of those goes into every migration scope we write — it keeps the work honest about why it exists.
In practice: how Edge Deliverymigration actually runs
Migrating to EDS, the work splits: content mapping (existing pages to documents and blocks — templates rethought, not ported), a block-development sprint for the patterns your content genuinely needs, SEO continuity engineered URL by URL, and author transition, which is usually joyful (writers already know documents) but needs conventions established early before creative formatting invents untestable edge cases. Typical outcome we aim to demonstrate: Core Web Vitals transformed, publishing cycle time cut dramatically, and a content team that stops filing tickets to publish.
How it runs
Edge Delivery migration: the delivery arc
- 1
Audit & inventory — What exists in the estate you're leaving, what is used, what shouldn't survive the move — Edge Delivery migrations shrink healthily when inventory is honest. Expect real User Monitoring and experimentation built in to feature here.
- 2
Map & design — Data, content and logic mapped into Edge Delivery idiom — redesigned where transliteration would embed the old platform's problems, notably around document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint. Expect universal Editor for in-context editing to feature here.
- 3
Build & parallel-run — Edge Delivery built while the source keeps running; reconciliation reports compare the two on real traffic. Expect incremental adoption alongside existing AEM Sites to feature here.
- 4
Cut over in phases — Staged switchover to Edge Delivery with rollback paths, sequenced around your business calendar — never around ours. Expect lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform to feature here.
- 5
Verify & retire — Post-migration validation against baselines, then deliberate decommissioning — zombie legacy systems beside Edge Delivery are a cost and a risk. Expect let marketers publish without a developer in the loop to feature here.
Engagement models
- Fixed-scope migration.Priced against an audited inventory with parallel-run gates on the Edge Delivery build — the predictability procurement wants.
- Migrate + operate.We move you to Edge Delivery, then run it under a managed service — accountability with no handover seam to fall through. A natural fit when migration of priority templates and content is on the near-term roadmap.
- Migration assurance.Your team executes the Edge Delivery move; we design, gate and validate. The economical model when in-house capacity is real.
How we measure success
- Reconciliation between Edge Delivery and the legacy stack clean before cutover, verified after
- Business continuity — reporting, sends, revenue — unbroken through the move
- The legacy platform actually decommissioned, with the savings realized
Pitfalls we design against
- Lift-and-shift thinking.Copying the old system's shape into Edge Delivery imports its problems with interest. Idiom-aware redesign is the point of moving.
- Cutover without parallel proof.Switching to Edge Delivery on faith produces the war stories. Parallel-run reconciliation is non-negotiable here.
- The immortal legacy system.If the old platform never dies, you bought a second platform, not a Edge Delivery migration. Decommissioning is in the plan from day one.
Frequently asked questions
What does Edge Delivery migration cost?
It depends on scope — for Edge Delivery chiefly on traffic volume and edge request counts and how much integration surrounds it — which is why we don't publish rate cards. Share your requirements and we'll return a transparent, itemized migration proposal.
How senior are the people doing the Edge Delivery work?
Delivery is led by Adobe-certified consultants who work with document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint daily. We staff named individuals, not a rotating bench, and you meet the Edge Delivery team before anything is signed.
How quickly can a Edge Delivery migration engagement start?
Scoping starts within days of first contact; Edge Delivery delivery — including early work on authoring workflow setup in drive or sharepoint — typically begins within two to three weeks once scope is agreed and access is arranged. Urgent Edge Delivery situations can be fast-tracked; say so and we'll plan around it.
What does DWAO need from us for Edge Delivery migration to succeed?
Three things: access to the relevant Edge Delivery environments and the data behind block-based component development model, a named decision-maker who can unblock migration questions within days rather than weeks, and honesty about the current state — the plan is more accurate when nothing is polished for our benefit.
Will we lose historical data or continuity moving to Edge Delivery?
Some history always translates imperfectly between platforms — the honest version of this answer names what, before cutover. Our parallel-run approach reconciles both systems on live Edge Delivery traffic, baselines are exported before anything is switched off, and continuity decisions are made explicitly with you rather than discovered afterward.
Why choose DWAO for Edge Delivery migration?
Adobe Gold Partner status, certified Edge Delivery specialists who work with document-based authoring via Google Drive or SharePoint daily, and delivery evidence toward outcomes like lift Core Web Vitals into the green without a full replatform. More practically: named people, documentation in your systems, and success defined as your team owning Edge Delivery — the model that earns renewals rather than assuming them.
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Scope your Edge Delivery migration
Tell us where your Edge Delivery estate stands and what migration needs to achieve. A certified Edge Delivery consultant reviews it and comes back with a practical next step — not a sales pitch.
- Adobe Gold Partner with certified Edge Delivery specialists
- Migration scoping response within one business day
- Edge Delivery delivery teams across five countries
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