Start Here: Learn AEM
Start here if you want a practical path into Adobe Experience Manager without getting lost in the older blog archive. This roadmap helps you choose the right learning track for beginners, developers, architects, and Cloud users, then move into the topics that matter most for your role: fundamentals, components, HTL, Sling, workflows, OSGi, AEMaaCS, Assets, EDS, and troubleshooting.
If you are new to AEM, start with the roadmap below and then move into the cloud, assets, EDS, troubleshooting, and interview sections as needed.
Recommended starting points
- AEM CQ5 Tutorial for Beginners for a structured roadmap across AEM fundamentals, components, Sling, OSGi, HTL, JCR, workflows, indexing, dispatcher, and interview prep.
- Learn AEM for grouped tutorials by concept and implementation area.
- AEM Cloud for modern AEM as a Cloud Service topics, migration, logs, service users, and index management.
- AEM Assets for DAM, metadata, smart tags, asset view, and extension topics.
- AEM Sites — Learn AEM Sites fundamentals, page authoring, templates, editable templates, components, Core Components, content authoring, and the development flow around HTL and Sling Models. This is the right path for AEM Sites development.
- Edge Delivery Services for EDS foundations, authoring models, and comparison guidance.
- AEM Test Series and Interview Questions for practice and revision.
Suggested learning order
- Understand AEM fundamentals and key product concepts.
- Learn components, templates, dialogs, Sling, HTL, OSGi, and JCR basics.
- Move to assets, workflows, query tools, indexing, dispatcher, and security.
- Learn AEM Sites page authoring, templates, editable templates, components, Core Components, and the basic content authoring model.
- Then shift to AEM as a Cloud Service, Cloud Manager, and Edge Delivery Services.
- Use the test series and interview pages to validate what you learned.
Version guidance
Important: this site preserves valuable legacy AEM 6.x and AEM 6.5 tutorials while also surfacing modern AEMaaCS and EDS guidance. Use article context to understand whether a tutorial is best treated as legacy reference, 6.5 guidance, or modern cloud-era implementation.