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Following the Adobe Summit 2024 announcements, Adobe formally released Edge Delivery Services as a commerce storefront option. It is a different way of building a storefront rather than a faster version of the existing one — document-based authoring on one side, edge computing on the other.
What it is
Edge Delivery Services combines content delivery networks, edge computing and modern web standards to serve content and applications from wherever is closest to your customer. For commerce, that means faster page loads, better Core Web Vitals, and a simpler development model.
Document-based authoring
The unusual part is the authoring. Rather than working inside a CMS interface, content teams author in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, and those documents are transformed into the live web experience. Whether that appeals depends entirely on your team — but it removes the training barrier for anyone who has been waiting on a developer to change a paragraph.
Lighthouse 100 scores
Merchants using Edge Delivery Services report Lighthouse 100 scores across performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO. Scores like that have historically taken sustained technical effort and ongoing optimisation. Here they come from the architecture rather than from a performance project.
What it removes
No complex build process, no server provisioning, no CDN configuration to get right. Caching, invalidation and global distribution are handled by the service. Changes deploy instantly, and performance holds without anyone watching it.
What this means for you
If you want a fast storefront and a content team that can change it without raising a ticket, Edge Delivery Services is worth a serious look. The trade is architectural: you are adopting Adobe's model for how a storefront is built and authored, so it is a decision to make deliberately rather than a migration to slot in between other work.