Solution Architect - Prasad Response

Sitecore XM Cloud is a SaaS-based headless CMS that separates authoring, content delivery, and rendering into different layers. At the core is the CMS Platform, which serves as the Content Authoring Environment where content editors create and manage content. Content published is pushed to Experience Edge, which is a CDN implementation by Sitecore to host the published content. It exposes the content through a GraphQL endpoint. The Rendering Host is the public-facing application which uses published content and renders the page. This is hosted outside the Sitecore stack on platforms like Vercel or Netlify, making the application decoupled. Deployment to XM Cloud is done through Sitecore CLI or the Deploy App.