Best Practices Analyzer · pattern code · Infrastructure
BPA code REP: Enabled replication agents
When Adobe's Best Practices Analyzer reports REP, it has found enabled replication agents on your AEM instance. Here is what that means for a move to AEM as a Cloud Service.
What to do
Remove agents; Cloud Service publishes through Sling Content Distribution.
Step-by-step fix: Replication agents and Sling Content Distribution on AEM Cloud Service.
Can it be fixed automatically?
- Yes, often: the Content Transformer in Cloud Acceleration Manager can fix findings of this type and creates a rollback package first.
- In our pipeline, automation for this pattern is rated high: agents prepare the change and an engineer reviews it.
How much work is it?
Our readiness scan plans about 2 hours per finding at MAJOR importance (1.5× for CRITICAL, 0.5× for ADVISORY), plus a small fixed cost, capped at 40 hours for this code. INFO rows are treated as inventory and not costed. These are planning figures, not a quote.
Reading the row in results.csv
Filter the code column for REP. The importance column says how urgent each row is, identifier usually holds the repository path, and message describes the finding. See how to read a BPA report for every column.
Source: Adobe Pattern Detector documentation for REP. Checked 19 October 2026.