Watch this video to learn about Business profiles, enterprise storage, and Adobe profiles.
Last updated on
Dec 16, 2024
Applies to enterprise & teams.
Learn how Adobe storage for business works, who owns your organisation's storage, and how Business and Personal profiles keep business assets separate.
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Adobe storage for business is the cloud storage included with Creative Cloud for enterprise and most other Adobe enterprise plans. It gives your organization central control over content, with user access to assets, documents, libraries, and services across Creative Cloud apps.
Beyond storage, the platform lets admins manage encryption, impose sharing restrictions, and enforce account security across Creative Cloud users.
How storage works
Storage is pooled at the organization level, not allocated per individual user. The total available is the sum of entitlements across all Adobe products your organization has purchased.
Any user can exceed their base per-license entitlement as long as the organization has not reached its overall total. For example, 50 Creative Cloud for enterprise licenses give a pooled total of 50 times the per-license entitlement. Any user who needs more can draw from the unused balance in the pool.
Storage ownership
The organization owns the entire storage entitlement under its license agreement. This means:
- Admins can view, manage, and reclaim content stored in business storage.
- Content is accessible only to the user and the plan administrator, not to other team members, unless explicitly shared.
- When a user leaves, the organization retains access to their business storage assets.
Note
- If your Adobe membership does not include storage, contact your Adobe Account Manager to discuss upgrading.
- In some organizations, cloud storage isn't centralized and is assigned at the user level. Users in those organizations receive storage based on their existing entitlements rather than from a pooled total.
Storage entitlement
Enterprise users must be part of a product profile to receive storage entitlement. The product profile determines both the applications available to the user and the associated storage allocation.
When a user is removed from a product profile or their license is unassigned, their storage allocation is revised immediately. If they exceed the new allocation, they cannot add new files but retain read access to existing content until they free up space.
Business profiles and personal profiles
When an organization uses Adobe storage for business, every user has two separate profiles, each with its own dedicated storage.
| Business Profile | Personal Profile |
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Provided by your organization through an enterprise plan. Content may be accessed or controlled by the plan administrator. All work done in this profile is saved to your organization's business storage. |
Belongs to the user personally, via a Creative Cloud individual plan or free membership. The user has sole control. The organization cannot access it. All work done in this profile is saved to personal storage. |
Storage exclusions
The following are excluded from your organization's Adobe storage entitlement:
- Adobe Stock credits
- Adobe Fonts
- Smart Previews imported from Lightroom Classic
- Deleted Lightroom files
- Frame.io files. Frame.io uses its own separate cloud storage, not Adobe Cloud storage.
