AEM with CDN Integration
Building a unified cache management and invalidation platform across multiple CDN providers.
Background
The client required a unified cache flushing solution within AEM that could remove cached content from multiple CDN providers including Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, and Cloudflare.
The tool needed to integrate with AEM’s replication agent UI, support selective licensing per CDN provider, and work across both AEM 5.x and 6.x environments.
Task
The objective was to design and build a scalable cache invalidation framework that exposed all relevant CDN features through a single interface and allowed clients to enable or license only the CDN integrations they required.
Solution
- Analyzed and documented feature sets of Akamai, CloudFront, and Cloudflare
- Designed a modular architecture to support multiple CDN providers
- Built a custom replication agent within AEM for cache invalidation
- Implemented custom synchronization types for each CDN provider
- Used AEM polling mechanisms to track invalidation status
- Implemented AEM Event Handler APIs for asynchronous processing
- Designed licensing controls for selective CDN enablement
- Ensured compatibility with both AEM 5.x and AEM 6.x versions
Results
- Enabled unified cache invalidation across multiple CDN providers
- Reduced operational overhead for managing content freshness
- Provided flexible licensing based on client CDN usage
- Improved cache consistency and content delivery performance
- Delivered a scalable and future-proof CDN integration layer