Asset Hub – Modernizing AEM Asset Share with Edge Delivery Services, Content Hub, and Edge Compute

AEM Asset Share has served customers for years as the go-to way to share brand assets externally, but it depends on the classic AEM Java and Publish stack and is showing its age. Adobe now offers Content Hub as a modern product solution for asset distribution with a much-improved search experience. However, many customers still need deeper customizations.

We present Asset Hub: built on AEM Edge Delivery Services for speed and performance, Dynamic Media & Content Hub APIs for modern asset binary delivery and AEM Content AI for smart and scalable search. Customizations are solved via edge compute on Cloudflare to support 3rd party authentication, authorization or rights request management. Instead of waiting for the perfect product solution, we push customer-specific logic to the edge.

We have worked with multiple customers in co-innovation to bootstrap and fine tune this approach. The goal is to give AEM partners a reusable blueprint for building customized Asset Hub solutions. We'll also share how AI development sped up our co-innovation and how that is part of the blueprint for every project.