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Guides, tutorials and best practices from the Magento Company team.

Magento 2 on AWS: Reference Architecture

Reference AWS architecture for Magento 2: multi-AZ web tier, RDS, ElastiCache, EFS/S3 media, OpenSearch, autoscaling and cost control.

Upgrade Magento 2 to the latest 2.4 release safely: pre-upgrade audit, Composer steps, extension compatibility, testing and go-live checklist.

Magento 2 tier and group pricing: quantity breaks, customer group prices, strategy for B2B margins and how tiers interact with cart rules.

Customise the Magento 2 checkout safely: layout XML merging, mixin-based JS extension, layout processors, and the patterns that survive upgrades.

Magento 2 wishlist and product compare: how they work, multi-wishlist on Adobe Commerce, using wishlist data for marketing, and when to disable.

GA4 on Magento 2: ecommerce event setup via GTM, consent mode, purchase deduplication, and when server-side tracking is worth the effort.

Adobe Commerce Cloud vs self-hosted compared: infrastructure, deployment, support and true cost - and when each option is the right call.

Magento 2 accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA essentials, common storefront failures, legal exposure in the UK/EU, and how to audit and fix themes.

Magento 2 RequireJS explained: requirejs-config.js, mixins, bundling strategy, deferred loading and taming Luma's JavaScript weight.

CI/CD for Magento 2: pipeline stages from lint to deploy, zero-downtime builds, per-PR environments and the checks worth automating.

Adobe Commerce B2B company accounts: structure, roles and permissions, approval workflows, credit limits and how company data maps to customers.

GDPR compliance for Magento 2: consent management, data subject requests, Magento's privacy tools, analytics consent mode and data retention.