Edit: Date's are now fixed to the correct format by setting environment varible in the following manner and then specifying LOCALE = 'en_GB.UTF-8 in pelicanconf.py:

export LC_ALL=C

I've also programatically figured out how to invalidate the Cloudfront cache now using:

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id your_distribution_id_here --paths "/"

You can then check the invalidation has completed a very short time later using:

aws cloudfront list-invalidations --distribution-id your_distribution_id_here

This will return a JSON object as below and the last entry confirms the invalidation is complete:

json { "InvalidationList": { "Items": [ { "Id": "your_dist_id_here", "CreateTime": "2023-10-14T07:56:11.019000+00:00", "Status": "Completed" }, ] } }

The next steps are to modify the makefile command to include these steps, which will cut down the publish time and effort required to publish an article once written.

Edit: The above is now sorted and s3_upload