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…

Migrating to a new server that has a new DB and new S3 buckets for backup and uploads

supermathie (Michael Brown) February 19, 2026, 9:47pm 19

clarification: if the major version matches what we’re shipping

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