Create production programs
A production program is for users familiar with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Cloud Manager, ready to write, build, and test code, with the goal of deploying it to handle live traffic.
Learn more about program types in the document Understanding Program and Program Types.
Create a production program
Depending on your organization’s entitlements, you may see additional production program options when adding your program.
See Additional production program options.
To create a production program:
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Log into Cloud Manager at my.cloudmanager.adobe.com and select the appropriate organization.
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On the My Programs console, near the upper-right corner, click Add Program.
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In the Let’s create your Program wizard, in the Program name text field, type the name you want for the program.
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Under Program Objective, select
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(Optional) In the lower-right corner of the wizard dialog box, do either one of the following:
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Click Continue.
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In the Solutions & Add-ons list box, select one or more solutions to include in the program.
- If you are not sure if you need one or more programs for the various solutions you have available, select the one most of interest to you. You can activate additional solutions by editing the program later. See the Introduction to Production Programs document for more program setup recommendations.
- It is required that you select at least one solution for program creation. For example, you can choose to select Edge Delivery Services for a fully managed CDN solution that optimizes digital experiences. See About using Edge Delivery Services to deliver your Cloud Manager project
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When you are done selecting your solutions and add-ons, click Continue.
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On the Go-Live Date tab, enter the date that you plan to have your production program Go Live.
- You can edit this date at any time.
- The date serves informational purposes and triggers the Go Live widget on the Program Overview page. This functionality provides timely in-product links to AEM as a Cloud Service best practices to support a smooth Go Live experience.
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Click Create. Cloud Manager creates your program and displays it on the landing page for selection.
Additional production program options
Depending on what entitlements are available to your organization, you may have the following additional options available to you when you create a production program.
Security
If you have the necessary entitlements, the Security tab is shown as the first tab in the Set up for production dialog box.
The Security tab provides the options to activate HIPAA, or WAF-DDOS Protection, or both, for your production program.
Adobe HIPAA Compliant and WAF-DDOS (Web Application Firewall - Distributed Denial of Service) facilitates cloud-based security as part of a multi-layered approach for protecting against vulnerabilities.
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HIPAA - This option enables Adobe’s HIPPA-ready solution implementation.
- Learn more about Adobe’s HIPAA ready solution implementation.
- HIPAA cannot be enabled or disabled after program creation.
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WAF-DDOS Protection - This option enables the Web Application Firewall by way of rules to protect your application.
- Once activated, WAF-DDOS protection can then be configured by setting up a non-production pipeline.
- See Traffic Filter Rules including WAF Rules to learn how to manage traffic filter rules in your repository so they are deployed properly.
SLA
If you have the necessary entitlements, the SLA tab is shown as the second or third tab in the Set up for production dialog box.
Sites and Forms offer a standard 99.9% service level agreement (SLA). The 99.99% Service Level Agreement option guarantees a 99.99% minimum uptime for your production environments, whether for Sites, Forms, Edge Delivery Services, or all three.
99.99% SLA offers benefits including higher availability and lower latency.
For Sites and Forms programs, the 99.99% SLA requires an additional publish region to be applied to the production environment in the program. When the requirements for enabling 99.99% SLA are met, you must run a full stack pipeline to activate it.
For Edge Delivery Services, there is no requirement other than configuring the 99.99% SLA license on the program.
Requirements for 99.99% SLA
In addition to the required entitlements, using the 99.99% SLA for Sites or Forms programs comes with the following additional requirements:
- The organization must have 99.99% SLA and additional publish region entitlements available when applying 99.99% SLA to the program.
- Cloud Manager verifies that an unused additional publish region entitlement is available before applying 99.99% SLA to the program.
- When editing a program, if it already contains a production environment with at least one additional publish region, then Cloud Manager checks only for the availability of a 99.99% SLA entitlement.
- For activation of 99.99% SLA and reporting, the production/stage environment must have been created and at least one additional publish region must have been applied on the production/stage environment.
- If using advanced networking, make sure to check the Adding Multiple Publish Regions to a New Environment document for recommendations so that connectivity is maintained if there is regional failure.
- Your 99.99% SLA program must always include at least one additional publish region. Users are not allowed to delete the last remaining additional publish region from the program.
- Your 99.99% SLA is supported for production programs that have the Sites or Forms solution enabled.
- Run a full stack pipeline to activate or — when editing a program — deactivate the 99.99% SLA.
