Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) on Microsoft Azure Cloud

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It is common for organizations to consolidate on a single Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, and Microsoft Azure’s strong play in creating hybrid Windows cloud environments makes it a logical choice for many IT departments. Based on Hyper-V, Microsoft’s long-proven native virtualization platform, the Azure platform offerings have grown considerably over the last few years.
Adobe Experience Manager runs within a Java Virtual Machine, and deployments on both RedHat Enterprise Linux and its community counterpart, CentOS are supported operating systems. As these are the OSes we most commonly see for AEM deployments, I will use RHEL and CentOS as examples.  Good news.  For organizations on Azure, deploying RHEL or CentOS is quite commonplace.
So why not AEM on Azure? Yes, why not?
Azure fully supports deploying these operating systems, and I personally have been doing it on Hyper-V since its introduction in 2008. Since the Adobe/Azure announcement back in September, 2016, we at Perficient have been deploying proof-of-concept topologies of AEM on Azure.

But deploying AEM on a cloud platform is about far more than just the underlying OS. It’s about a feature-rich platform that scales, and automation to reduce administrative overhead. In future blog posts, we’ll show how Azure can help automate common infrastructure tasks like AEM instance deployment, backup and patching.
Hello, AEM. Welcome to Azure!
About Adobe and Microsoft Azure at Perficient
With award-winning delivery practices for both the Adobe and Microsoft platforms, Perficient is uniquely positioned to explore, strategize, and implement Adobe Marketing Cloud in Microsoft’s Azure cloud.  Our Adobe team has designed, deployed and supported national and global implementations of Adobe Experience Manager, while our cloud-driven Microsoft practice is home to over 50 certified Azure consultants and has moved millions of business users to the Microsoft cloud since 2010.  Both practices have achieved the highest levels of recognition and partnership from Adobe and Microsoft, and we at Perficient are thrilled to help make Adobe on Microsoft Azure a reality for our clients.