LevelFive-Studio rips out the cloud foundation and rebuilds helix-tribune on AWS
A wholesale migration off Cloudflare and Supabase onto Amazon's stack, with the default home base moved to London.
LevelFive-Studio swapped almost the entire plumbing of this fork in one go. The old setup leaned on Supabase (a hosted database-and-login service) and Cloudflare; the new one runs on Amazon Web Services, with a different sign-in provider handling user accounts and the default region flipped from Northern Virginia to London.
The detail worth flagging sits underneath all of that. The previous design enforced who-can-see-what at the database level, as a hard backstop. That backstop is gone - every access decision now lives in the application's own code instead. It works, but it shifts the burden: anyone borrowing from this fork, or merging future upstream changes into it, has to trust the app layer to get permissions right every time, with no database safety net behind it.
Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?