How to move a Lightsail S3 bucket to an official AWS S3 bucket as well as CloudFront CDN?

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There is Moving from one S3 bucket to another, which is not very easy.

I think what I would do, if everything is still on the lightsail buckets as you say, is to

  • turn on the hidden SiteSetting.include_s3_uploads_in_backups=true on the site with old buckets
  • set read only
  • make a backup
  • restore that backup to the newly configured system
  • switch DNS to new system

I would keep the old system in place for a bit until you’re sure everything is straight on the new one.

If you have things in multiple buckets on a single instance things get much more complicated. I’ve got a couple of sites that way that I’ve been trying off-and-on to get straight for longer that I care to admit publicly.

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