Install Discourse on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Lightsail, SES, and Route 53

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as a follow up, perhaps we could expand this post to include setup for AWS Cloudfront CDN? Since it fits well with the rest of the AWS stack described here. I got it running by following the advice from this post

How to setup cloudfront for discourse

@Magnetidog I just got it to work. I basically created the AWS Cloudfront distribution as explained in this video. Then, I went to the admin panel and added my Cloudfront URL to the s3 cdn url key. Then, I entered the container and rebaked all posts with rake posts:rebake (it took me around 10 min for every 7000 posts). I also tried doing it in batches in the Rails Console, but for some reason this didn’t work: Post.in_batches.update_all('baked_version = NULL') (nothing happened 🤷🏻‍♂)

but a more thorough guide would be great to include