LevelFive-Studio yanks Helix Tribune off Cloudflare and replants it on AWS
A full stack transplant - hosting, database, auth, storage, email - done as one coordinated branch.
@saratpediredla-level5 has rebuilt the helix-tribune fork end-to-end on Amazon Web Services. The frontend now runs on CloudFront and Lambda instead of Cloudflare's edge network, the backend lives in a containerized service with LibreOffice baked in for document conversion, and the database moves off Supabase onto Aurora - Amazon's managed Postgres - fronted by a connection pooler. Infrastructure is described in one place using SST, so the whole environment can be deployed as a unit.
The rewrite was deliberate rather than cosmetic. The team swapped Supabase's built-in authentication for Clerk, a third-party identity service, and pulled out Supabase's row-level database permissions in favor of access checks written directly into the backend routes. Object storage moves to S3 and email switches to SES, Amazon's transactional mail service. A companion document spells out which files will fight with future updates from the upstream Mike project and which won't.
Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?