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shrutid56001193
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February 23, 2026

Prevent Campaign Query Parameters from Bypassing CDN Cache in AEMaaCS

  • February 23, 2026
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In some Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service environments, marketing campaign parameters (e.g., utm_source, utm_medium, utm_content, elq_cid) can bypass CDN and dispatcher caching.

 

Since these parameters do not affect page rendering, requests are unnecessarily forwarded to AEM publish instances, increasing load and potentially impacting stability during campaign traffic.

 

Recommendation
Configure the CDN to remove marketing query parameters so cacheable requests remain served at the edge.

 

Read the full article here:

https://medium.com/@damleshruti/preventing-aem-as-a-cloud-service-outages-caused-by-marketing-query-parameters-af80586ca631

1 reply

arunpatidar
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
February 24, 2026

Here is the golden rule -

  1. block all query param, then whitelist which suppose to go to publishers instance
  2. do not block query param for author instance.
Arun Patidar