CloudFront

aid: cloudfront
name: CloudFront
description: >-
  CloudFront is Amazon Web Services' content delivery network (CDN) for
  delivering data, video, applications, and APIs globally with low latency.
  This repository is the short-form profile for AWS CloudFront; the
  canonical AWS service profile lives at amazon-cloudfront in the API
  Evangelist Network. CloudFront's API is part of the AWS Service Reference
  and exposes operations for distributions, origins, cache behaviors,
  invalidations, origin access identities, functions, and Lambda@Edge.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudfront/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: company
x-alias-of: amazon-cloudfront
tags:
  - Alias
  - AWS
  - CDN
  - Caching
  - Content Delivery
  - Edge Computing
  - Lambda@Edge
  - Network
apis:
  - aid: cloudfront:canonical
    name: AWS CloudFront API (canonical)
    tags:
      - Canonical
      - REST
      - AWS
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
    humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/
        type: Developer Guide
    description: >-
      The AWS CloudFront REST API exposes operations for managing
      distributions (CreateDistribution, GetDistribution, UpdateDistribution,
      DeleteDistribution, ListDistributions), origins, cache policies,
      invalidations, origin access identities and OAC, key groups,
      CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge associations, real-time log configs
      and field-level encryption. AWS Signature v4 authentication.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
  - type: Canonical
    url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudfront
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]