Hi @coleea Newbies are 
welcome here!
You are correct. The current deploy aws implementation does not include deploying the web assets on Cloudfront, which means it is only for deploying the api/dist to AWS Lambdas.
It’s a community contribution and just didn’t get finished.
You can add the config for deploying the web/dist assets to Cloudfront. Under the hood, this deployment uses the serverless.com framework. Take a look at these docs:
If all that seems too complicated to get started but you still want to manage your own deployment on AWS, check out running Redwood in a traditional server via Docker (or otherwise). Some docs and threads about this: