Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud
Developer(s)Adobe
Initial releaseJuly 17, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-07-17)
Stable release
CC 2025 / October 14, 2024; 39 days ago (2024-10-14) [1]
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Android, and iOS
PredecessorAdobe Creative Suite 6
Available inEnglish
TypeSoftware suite
LicenseSoftware as a service
Websiteadobe.com/creativecloud

Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services. In Creative Cloud, a monthly or annual subscription service is delivered over the Internet.[2][3] Software from Creative Cloud is downloaded from the Internet, installed directly on a local computer and used as long as the subscription remains valid. Online updates and multiple languages are included in the CC subscription. Creative Cloud was initially hosted on Amazon Web Services, but a new agreement with Microsoft has the software, beginning with the 2017 version, hosted on Microsoft Azure.[4]

Previously, Adobe offered individual products as well as software suites containing several products (such as Adobe Creative Suite or Adobe eLearning Suite) with a perpetual software license.[5]

Adobe first announced the Creative Cloud in October 2011. Another version of Adobe Creative Suite was released the following year.[6] On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that they would not release new versions of the Creative Suite and that future versions of its software would be available only through the Creative Cloud.[7][8][9] The first new versions made only for the Creative Cloud were released on June 17, 2013.

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  6. ^ Weber, Harrison (June 18, 2014). "Adobe launches Creative Cloud 2014 — its first massive update since killing the Creative Suite". VentureBeat. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Muchmore, Michael (May 6, 2013). "Adobe Ditches Creative Suite for CC: Creative Cloud". PC Magazine. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  8. ^ Cunningham, Andrew (May 7, 2013). "Adobe's Creative Suite is dead, long live the Creative Cloud". Ars Technica.
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