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Adobe Commerce as a Service architecture

Last update: March 18, 2025
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  • Catalog Service
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Adobe Commerce as a cloud service offers a secure, automated hosting platform with self-service features for managing commerce applications. Key features include asset management through Adobe Experience Manager, comprehensive API coverage with GraphQL and REST APIs, and intelligent merchandising services. The platform supports a fully headless architecture, allowing developers to use various front-end frameworks like React and Angular. It also provides a modern headless storefront with document-based authoring and native A/B testing. Additionally, Adobe Commerce integrates with Adobe Experience Cloud for personalized commerce experiences and offers extensive tools for developers, including the Adobe Developer App Builder and API mesh.

What you’ll learn

Learn about the architecture and key features of Adobe Commerce as a cloud service. Elements including secure hosting, API coverage, headless architecture, and integration capabilities

Who is this video for?

  • E-commerce Managers to understand the capabilities and features of Adobe Commerce.
  • Developers to learn about the platform’s architecture, APIs, and integration tools.
  • Digital Marketers to explore how Adobe Commerce can enhance customer experiences.
  • IT Administrators to grasp the security and hosting aspects of the cloud service.
  • Product Managers to see how the platform supports various business goals and merchandising services.

Video content

  • Secure and Automated Hosting: Adobe Commerce provides a secure, automated hosting platform with self-service features for managing commerce applications.
  • Comprehensive API Coverage: The platform supports extensive API coverage using GraphQL and REST APIs, enabling seamless integration with third-party systems.
  • Headless Architecture: Fully decoupled architecture allows developers to use various front-end frameworks, offering flexibility and performance.

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https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/3443232?learn=on

Transcript
This is Russell with Adobe Commerce. And in this session, we’re going to be covering the architecture for Adobe Commerce as a cloud service. This platform leverages a variety of cloud native services to deliver robust and scalable solutions for merchants and shoppers. Adobe Commerce as a cloud service provides a secure, automated hosting platform and self-service features for managing your commerce application in a cloud native environment. A few key features are asset management through the use of the integrated Adobe Experience Manager asset solution. We also have our comprehensive API coverage in which the core commerce application and third-party systems will use GraphQL and Rust APIs. There is a rich set of intelligent, composable merchandising services, and they offer support for all of your business goals. We can start by talking about our live search, powered by Adobe Sensei. Next, we’ll have our product recommendation. We offer a powerful and performant catalog service. And of course, we also have our Adobe payment services. Adobe Commerce as a cloud service is fully headless. With its decoupled architecture, it provides all commerce services and data through GraphQL API layer. This allows your team to develop their commerce front-end independently and choose to use whatever front-end they’re comfortable using. You can choose things like React, Next, Angular, Astro, and those are just a few examples. We also provide a modern headless storefront, and this offers document-based authoring. It was designed to be a performance-first architecture, and it even allows for out-of-the-box native A-B testing. And if that’s not enough, you can use other Adobe Experience cloud solutions for personalized commerce experiences at scale. For developers, you can expect comprehensive extension points and tools to build out applications that extend the core commerce capabilities, and they also integrate with third-party systems. Let’s start with the Adobe Developer App Builder, and you can also leverage API Mesh. There’s also events, we have webhooks, we also have an integration starter kit. This kit helps accelerate back-office integrations with reference integrations and onboarding scripts. So with that, we can wrap up this tutorial on the architecture for Adobe Commerce as a service. And as always, I hope you continue to learn more about Adobe Commerce here on Experience League, as well as all of the other Adobe products.
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