Hi, I am currently in the process of migrating our server from an existing Bitnami based deployment (quite an old version) to the officially supported install in AWS using the latest Discourse release. This new install has an external Elasticache and RDS instance and also will use S3 for backups an…

Maybe I am missing something but, why are you establishing new buckets? A new backup bucket with appropriate lifecycle rules seems ok to do but if your existing Discourse instance is using S3 upload bucket you will have some problems.

2 reasons we need new buckets: I am not 100% sure the migration from Bitnami will work without a hitch so we don’t want to impact any existing data incase we need to abort the migration We changed our bucket naming so thought it easier to have 2 brand new buckets for this Point 1 is the one that …

I missed that you were going to copy over the data from the old buckets. Took a look at AWS, looks to be straight forward. If it were me I would not muck with changing buckets before moving to AWS or a new server elsewhere. [Bild] stevejr: to the officially supported install in AWS using the la…

[Bild] stevejr: I am not 100% sure the migration from Bitnami will work without a hitch This is something you can easily test without affecting production. Personally I would do everything I could to avoid doing these two things at the same moment. see if you can avoid moving buckets at al…

[Bild] stevejr: This new install has an external Elasticache and RDS instance and I am very curious about how doing this type of install is a value added proposition. From the numerous posts around unsupported installs it seems more trouble than benefit unless folks are doing them for learni…

[Bild] philh: am very curious about how doing this type of install is a value added proposition. From the numerous posts around unsupported installs Such a setup might be an unsupported install from a Discourse point of view, but from the perspective of an enterprise IT organisation, RDS and…

Thanks for that. So familiarity and perhaps existing infrastructure.

Thanks for the input on this question. As mentioned by @RGJ , our enterprise infra uses external services for things like cache, database etc hence the Elasticache and RDS. It means we can have full backup and redundancy for these services and also help with security controls. This is an official/s…

[Bild] stevejr: sounds like we should first update our bucket names for the existing install and then perform the move to the new server I wouldn’t do that [Bild] RGJ: do it after the migration from Bitnami Since if you do it prior to the migration and things go south, you’ll have the…

Ah sorry Richard, misread you bullet point on the S3 name changes :+1: So, better plan is to backup the existing buckets, do the migration, make the bucket name change. Thanks for all your help with this so far. And yes, the “B” word does make people clam up so good to be moving away from it …

Umzug auf einen neuen Server mit neuer DB und neuen S3 Buckets für Backup und Uploads

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stevejr (Steve) 13. Februar 2026 um 16:24 15

Super. Vielen Dank für all die Hilfe @RGJ. Ich melde mich zurück, wenn die Migration abgeschlossen ist, um Ihnen mitzuteilen, wie es gelaufen ist.

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