Can we migrate from AEM 6.2 to AEMaaCS directly?

[Lakshmi08]

Hi All,

Wanted to know if we can directly migrate from AEM6.2 to AEMaaCS. Is it a best practice?

Thanks!

[sarav_prakash]

Yes definitely. So you are migrating from onprem to cloud. There are few considerations, follow 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/migration-journe...

1. What is the difference between onprem 6.x to cloud service ? here.
2. Plan to migrate
3. You ll plan for code migration, content migration, config migration. explained here.
4. Adobe also provides a content transfer tool.
5. You would forget about adminconsole, configuration managers, crxde for prod etc. Since cloud world many tools are suppressed for good reasons.
6. There is premigration and postmigration documentations. 

To answer your question, `is it best practice`? It depends on your organization requirement. onprem vs cloud, each have their own pros, cons. Organizations choose what suits them. The migration process is well documented and ample community support have seen to help with migration. 

[NehaCMS]

hi @arunpatidar - Wanted to know can migration from lower version of AEM <6.3 possible directly to AEM as Cloud Service or we have to first migrate to AEM 6.5 and then can move to AEM as CS.

Any relevant documentation/link referencing will help.

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

I think that you need to go through an intermediary step of AEM 6.5. That's because with AEM 6.4 some paths in the repository changed (for example /etc/tags moved to /content/cq:tags and some more things), which the migration tools to AEM CS don't handle. 

For that reason I would recommend to go through AEM 6.5 before:

• The changes you need to do (both content- and code-wise) for AEM 6.5 are required for AEM CS anway, you don't waste effort when you migrate to AEM 6.5 first.
• It allows you to split the amount of changes in 2 steps (AEM 6.2 -> AEM 6.5 and AEM 6.5 -> AEM CS); and that allows you to validate your first bunch of changes on AEM 6.5 (on-prem) and gain some confidence in it, before you then migrate to AEM CS.

[NehaCMS]

Thanks @Jörg_Hoh for update

[AMANATH_ULLAH]

@Lakshmi08 @NehaCMS 

In case of AEM 6.2 , Content transfer tool is not supported

The minimum system requirement for Content Transfer Tool is AEM 6.3 + and Java™ 8. If you are on a lower AEM version, upgrade your content repository to AEM 6.5 to use the Content Transfer Tool.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/migration-journe...