Hibernate AEMaaCS Author and Publish Instance & Unused Instance Costing in Cloud

[thoufikcse]

Dear Advisors,
I would like to need your valuable input AEM as a cloud service.

1) We have multiple instances in cloud like (Dev, Uat, Stage and Prod Etc), some of the instance not using now so if there is any costing is involved if up and running?

2) Unused instances would like to hibernate and de-hibernate according to the need. Whether will be able to do that from our side without Adobe support team (In cloud sandbox environment we can able to hibernate and de-hibernate in dev console).


Regards,
Thoufik

[Saravanan_Dharmaraj · Accepted solution]

@thoufikcse My 2 cents, i don't think anybody would be able to advice on licensing question related to your company set up. I feel you should go over this ask with TAM (Technical Account Manager) from Adobe and see the response. At the end whatever mentioned in the license bought will be up and running as per Adobe, it doesn't matter you want to keep it hibernate or not. This is from my experience i have see. I might be wrong , but please check with TAM. 

[thoufikcse]

@Saravanan_Dharmaraj  Thanks.. Sure will take it up with them

[Harwinder-singh]

@thoufikcse  I would agree with @Saravanan_Dharmaraj . For the most accurate information on any licensing cost questions , TAM is your guy. Also, with AEMaCS there are multiple types of costs involved. One would be just the environment provisioning costs and another would be based on the amount of traffic you have. For Authors, i think it will also depend on the number of named Users that you have. But verify this with your account TAM.