Migrate from AEM Assets
without rebuilding your taxonomy.
Move every Adobe AEM asset to Bynder, AWS S3, Cloudinary, Azure Blob, or any of 12 supported destinations. Streaming transfers, jcr:content/metadata + cq:tags + workflow state preserved, resume-on-failure, and live observability — built so an enterprise replatform finishes this quarter, not next year.
Why teams leave AEM Assets
The four reasons we hear in enterprise replatforms.
Adobe licensing makes engineering decisions expensive
Multi-hundred-thousand dollar annual commits mean every architectural choice gets re-litigated by procurement. Teams want a model where renewing the platform isn't a board-level conversation.
JCR & Java complexity bottlenecks the team
Sling, OSGi, dispatcher rules, replication agents, JCR query language — AEM expertise is rare and getting rarer. Teams find themselves hiring around a stack that newer engineers don't want to learn.
Author UX is slow and content velocity suffers
Marketers complain that uploading, tagging, and publishing through the AEM author console takes too many clicks. Lighter DAMs and headless workflows move faster — content teams notice.
Headless integration always feels bolted on
Content Fragments, GraphQL endpoints, and the AEM-as-a-Cloud-Service headless story were retrofits onto a page-centric platform. Modern frontends want API-first DAMs that were designed for them.
How it works
Four steps from connect to finished cutover.
01
Connect AEM Assets
Paste your AEM base URL + service-user credentials (or OAuth client). Encrypted at rest, scoped to the connector, never logged.
02
Pick a destination
Bynder, S3, Cloudinary, Azure Blob, GCS, Contentful, or any of 12 supported destinations.
03
Start the migration
Assets stream directly from AEM to the destination. jcr:* metadata, cq:tags, workflow state, /content/dam paths, and renditions all carry over.
04
Watch it complete
Live progress, per-asset audit log, resume-on-failure, and a downloadable mapping report when the run finishes.
Schema-aware translation
Every AEM property lands on the destination’s native schema.
jcr:content/metadata, cq:tags, workflow state, /content/dam paths, smart tags, and renditions translate field-by-field into the destination’s schema — Asset Type properties in Bynder, user-metadata + tagging on S3, structured fields in Contentful. No silent drops.
Source
AEM Assets
Destination
Bynder
jcr:primaryType
dam:Asset
Asset type
Brand asset · Image
cq:tags
campaigns/spring-2026
Taxonomy
Campaigns › Spring 2026
jcr:content/metadata · workflow
approved
Workflow state
Approved (Q2 sign-off)
/content/dam path
/content/dam/brand/hero/spring
Collection
Brand › Hero › Spring 2026
dc:rights
cleared until 2027-04-30
Rights expiry
2027-04-30
renditions/* · smart tags
8 renditions · 22 smart tags
Derivatives · custom fields
8 carried · 22 preserved
What you actually get
Migration infrastructure, not a JCR export script.
jcr-aware metadata translation
Every property under jcr:content/metadata, cq:tags, and dc:* lands on the destination's closest semantic field. Where the destination has no equivalent, the value is preserved as a sidecar so round-tripping stays possible.
Workflow & taxonomy carried over
AEM workflow states, dam:status, and cq:tags namespaces translate to Bynder workflows, Contentful entry states, or queryable destination metadata. Your existing approval/tagging tooling keeps working.
Renditions & smart tags preserved
Originals + AEM-generated renditions + Adobe Sensei smart tags all carry over. Choose to migrate every rendition or regenerate at the destination — pricing is per-GB of bytes transferred, not per-asset.
Audit trail for compliance
Per-asset audit row from JCR fetch to destination ACK. Field-level mapping decisions logged for every transfer. SOC 2 / GDPR / DPDP-friendly evidence trail without extra tooling.
Where AEM assets can land
Pick any destination. We handle the schema translation.
Bynder has Asset Types and structured properties, S3 has user-metadata and object tagging, Cloudinary has structured metadata + contextual tags, Contentful has typed entry fields. Univaultport maps every AEM jcr: and cq: property to the closest semantic match on the destination, never silently drops content.
+ 6 more (Dropbox, Google Drive, WordPress, FTP, SFTP, local).
Still weighing where to go?
See our honest breakdown of the best AEM Assets alternatives — strengths, trade-offs, and pricing models — before you pick a destination.
Simple, usage-based pricing
Pay only for what you migrate.
No subscription, no per-asset fee, no minimum — and free credits on signup so you can run a real migration end-to-end before you pay anything. See the pricing page for current rates and enterprise options.
AEM migration FAQ
The questions that come up before every cutover.
- For typical enterprise AEM repositories (1-50 TB), expect 12-72 hours of wall time depending on destination throughput and rendition volume. We parallelise per-asset transfers, throttle to respect the destination platform's rate limits, and stream renditions alongside originals. The dashboard shows a live ETA based on observed throughput, and the migration is fully resumable if the source AEM instance hits a maintenance window.
Migrate from AEM Assets
this quarter.
Sign up, connect AEM, pick a destination, kick off a real migration. 1,000 free credits — no card required.