CloudFront
CloudFront management-plane and local content-delivery emulation. Supports distribution lifecycle,
cache policies, origin request policies, response headers policies, origin access controls, origin
access identities, public keys, trusted key groups, CloudFront Functions, invalidations, tagging, and
GET/HEAD/OPTIONS delivery from S3 or custom origins.
Protocol: REST XML
API version: 2020-05-31
Endpoint prefix: cloudfront
Namespace: http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2020-05-31/
Global service — ARNs contain no region segment.
Supported Operations
Distributions
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateDistribution |
POST |
/2020-05-31/distribution |
CreateDistributionWithTags |
POST |
/2020-05-31/distribution?WithTags |
GetDistribution |
GET |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id} |
GetDistributionConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/config |
UpdateDistribution |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/config |
DeleteDistribution |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id} |
ListDistributions |
GET |
/2020-05-31/distribution |
AssociateAlias |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{TargetDistributionId}/associate-alias |
Invalidations
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateInvalidation |
POST |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/invalidation |
GetInvalidation |
GET |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/invalidation/{InvId} |
ListInvalidations |
GET |
/2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/invalidation |
Cache Policies
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateCachePolicy |
POST |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy |
GetCachePolicy |
GET |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id} |
GetCachePolicyConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id}/config |
UpdateCachePolicy |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id} |
DeleteCachePolicy |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id} |
ListCachePolicies |
GET |
/2020-05-31/cache-policy |
Origin Request Policies
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateOriginRequestPolicy |
POST |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy |
GetOriginRequestPolicy |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy/{Id} |
GetOriginRequestPolicyConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy/{Id}/config |
UpdateOriginRequestPolicy |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy/{Id} |
DeleteOriginRequestPolicy |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy/{Id} |
ListOriginRequestPolicies |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-request-policy |
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateResponseHeadersPolicy |
POST |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy |
GetResponseHeadersPolicy |
GET |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy/{Id} |
GetResponseHeadersPolicyConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy/{Id}/config |
UpdateResponseHeadersPolicy |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy/{Id} |
DeleteResponseHeadersPolicy |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy/{Id} |
ListResponseHeadersPolicies |
GET |
/2020-05-31/response-headers-policy |
Origin Access Control (OAC)
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateOriginAccessControl |
POST |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control |
GetOriginAccessControl |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id} |
GetOriginAccessControlConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id}/config |
UpdateOriginAccessControl |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id} |
DeleteOriginAccessControl |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id} |
ListOriginAccessControls |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-control |
Origin Access Identity (OAI — legacy)
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity |
POST |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront |
GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront/{Id} |
GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront/{Id}/config |
UpdateCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront/{Id}/config |
DeleteCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront/{Id} |
ListCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentities |
GET |
/2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront |
CloudFront Functions
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreateFunction |
POST |
/2020-05-31/function |
GetFunction |
GET |
/2020-05-31/function/{Name} |
DescribeFunction |
GET |
/2020-05-31/function/{Name}/describe |
UpdateFunction |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/function/{Name} |
PublishFunction |
POST |
/2020-05-31/function/{Name}/publish |
DeleteFunction |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/function/{Name} |
ListFunctions |
GET |
/2020-05-31/function |
Public Keys and Key Groups
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
CreatePublicKey |
POST |
/2020-05-31/public-key |
GetPublicKey |
GET |
/2020-05-31/public-key/{Id} |
GetPublicKeyConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/public-key/{Id}/config |
UpdatePublicKey |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/public-key/{Id}/config |
DeletePublicKey |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/public-key/{Id} |
ListPublicKeys |
GET |
/2020-05-31/public-key |
CreateKeyGroup |
POST |
/2020-05-31/key-group |
GetKeyGroup |
GET |
/2020-05-31/key-group/{Id} |
GetKeyGroupConfig |
GET |
/2020-05-31/key-group/{Id}/config |
UpdateKeyGroup |
PUT |
/2020-05-31/key-group/{Id} |
DeleteKeyGroup |
DELETE |
/2020-05-31/key-group/{Id} |
ListKeyGroups |
GET |
/2020-05-31/key-group |
Tagging
| Operation |
Method |
Path |
ListTagsForResource |
GET |
/2020-05-31/tagging?Resource={arn} |
TagResource |
POST |
/2020-05-31/tagging?Operation=Tag&Resource={arn} |
UntagResource |
POST |
/2020-05-31/tagging?Operation=Untag&Resource={arn} |
Behavior
- All distributions are immediately set to
Deployed state (no async InProgress delay).
- Distribution IDs are 14 uppercase alphanumeric characters starting with
E (e.g. E1Z2X3C4V5B6N7).
- Distribution domain names follow the pattern
{id}.cloudfront.net, with the id lower-cased as AWS
writes it in a host name.
- Public key IDs are
K followed by 13 uppercase alphanumeric characters (e.g. K2JCJMDEHXQW5F),
the value a signed URL carries as Key-Pair-Id. Key group, cache policy, origin request policy and
response headers policy IDs are UUIDs, as they are on AWS.
- ARNs are global — no region segment:
arn:aws:cloudfront::{accountId}:distribution/{id}.
- Invalidations are immediately marked
Completed.
DeleteDistribution returns DistributionNotDisabled (409) if Enabled is true in the config.
- All mutating operations (
PUT, DELETE) require an If-Match header containing the current
ETag. Response headers policies, public keys, and key groups distinguish a missing header
(InvalidIfMatchVersion, 400) from a stale ETag (PreconditionFailed, 412). Other CloudFront
resources currently return InvalidIfMatchVersion (400) for either case.
- All
GET and POST (create) responses include an ETag response header.
- List operations emit the payload root declared by the CloudFront REST XML model (for example,
ListDistributions returns <DistributionList>), with list contents represented by
<Quantity>N</Quantity><Items>...</Items>.
- OAI
CallerReference uniqueness is enforced — duplicate CallerReference values return CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityAlreadyExists (409).
- CNAME aliases are globally unique.
AssociateAlias atomically transfers an alias from its current
owner to the target distribution. Exact aliases take precedence over the most-specific matching
wildcard alias.
- Viewer GET/HEAD requests, and OPTIONS requests allowed by the matched cache behavior, addressed to
an enabled distribution's generated domain or alias are routed to the matching S3 or custom
origin. Origin forwarding preserves the raw path; custom-origin redirects are not followed.
- Every distribution is also served as
{id}.cloudfront.{host} for each endpoint host Floci
resolves: localhost, localhost.floci.io, localhost.localstack.cloud, FLOCI_HOSTNAME and
every FLOCI_DNS_EXTRA_SUFFIXES entry. {id}.cloudfront.localhost.floci.io and
{id}.cloudfront.localhost reach loopback with no host-file edit and are covered by the generated
HTTPS certificate, so a signed URL for either can be downloaded over https://. See
Downloading over HTTPS.
- Origin custom headers are persisted through the CloudFront API and CloudFormation. They replace
same-named viewer headers on custom-origin GET/HEAD/OPTIONS requests. For in-process S3 origins, a
configured
Origin header is used for S3 CORS evaluation. AWS-prohibited names, malformed
values, inconsistent quantities, duplicates, and quota violations are rejected with modeled
CloudFront errors when the distribution is created or updated.
- Cache behaviors with enabled
TrustedKeyGroups require a valid CloudFront signed URL or signed
cookie before the origin is contacted. Signed URL parameters take precedence over signed cookies.
Canned and custom policies support SHA-1 or SHA-256 signatures with RSA-2048 or ECDSA P-256 public
keys. Custom policies enforce resource wildcards, expiration, optional activation time, and
IPv4 CIDR restrictions. Canned resources compare literally, including query strings. Exact custom
resources can include one raw query delimiter. As a conservative limitation, other custom
resources containing a raw ? fail closed because the character is ambiguous with CloudFront's
one-character wildcard; custom query-string wildcards are therefore not supported. Invalid or
expired signatures return 403.
- A key group must contain one to five existing public keys. Public keys that belong to a key group
and key groups referenced by a cache behavior cannot be deleted until those references are removed.
- Application query parameters are retained when constructing the resource covered by a signature.
CloudFront signing parameters are excluded from that resource and are never sent to the origin.
- S3-origin reads honor anonymous access, OAI bucket-policy or object-ACL grants, and OAC
service-principal bucket-policy grants (including the distribution
AWS:SourceArn) when strict S3
authentication is enabled. OAC always, never, and unsigned no-override requests follow their
documented signing behavior; signed no-override viewer requests retain their authorization.
- Cache-policy, origin-request-policy, and legacy
ForwardedValues data-plane evaluation is not
implemented yet. Viewer query strings therefore follow CloudFront's default behavior and are not
forwarded to origins.
- Custom origins that resolve to loopback, private, link-local, carrier-grade NAT, or other non-routable addresses are rejected by default. Development-only private origins must be explicitly allowlisted by exact hostname.
- Response headers policies validate the AWS configuration shape and are applied after the origin
response, including CORS preflight fields, origin override behavior, custom headers, security
headers, allowed header removals, and sampled
Server-Timing metrics. Pragma: server-timing
forces those metrics for enabled policies. Distribution writes reject unknown policy IDs, and
policies attached to a cache behavior cannot be deleted.
- Up to 20 custom response headers policies can be created, and one policy can be associated with
up to 100 distributions.
- The five AWS managed response headers policy IDs are available and can be selected with
ListResponseHeadersPolicies?Type=managed; Type uses the AWS lowercase managed or custom
values.
Configuration
| Property |
Env var |
Default |
Description |
floci.services.cloudfront.enabled |
FLOCI_SERVICES_CLOUDFRONT_ENABLED |
true |
Enable or disable the service |
floci.services.cloudfront.domain-suffix |
FLOCI_SERVICES_CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN_SUFFIX |
cloudfront.net |
Domain suffix for generated distribution domain names |
floci.services.cloudfront.allowed-private-origin-hosts |
FLOCI_SERVICES_CLOUDFRONT_ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ORIGIN_HOSTS |
[] |
Exact custom-origin hosts permitted to resolve to private/non-routable addresses (comma-separated in the environment variable) |
CLI Examples
Downloading over HTTPS
A distribution's own domain name ({id}.cloudfront.net by default) resolves to nothing local, so
address the distribution by one of its local delivery hostnames instead. *.cloudfront.localhost.floci.io
resolves to 127.0.0.1 through public DNS and works on Linux, macOS and in containers.
*.cloudfront.localhost needs no DNS at all but only resolves where the runtime handles .localhost
itself, which macOS and browsers do and Debian-based images do not.
Start Floci with TLS enabled and trust its CA once:
Sign the URL of the hostname you download from — the port is part of what a canned policy signs —
and fetch it:
To drop the :4566, publish the HTTPS port Floci also binds when TLS is on (-p 443:443, see
FLOCI_TLS_AWS_HTTPS_PORT) and sign https://e1z2x3c4v5b6n7.cloudfront.localhost.floci.io/hello.txt.
Set FLOCI_SERVICES_CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN_SUFFIX=cloudfront.localhost.floci.io to have
CreateDistribution return that hostname as the DomainName, so test code can sign the API response
as it is.
Not Supported (Phase 2)
- Continuous deployment policies (
CreateContinuousDeploymentPolicy, etc.)
CopyDistribution (staging distributions)
- Real-time log configs (
CreateRealtimeLogConfig, etc.)
- Field-level encryption (
CreateFieldLevelEncryptionConfig, etc.)
TestFunction execution (function is stored, not executed)
- Streaming distributions (RTMP — deprecated by AWS)
- VPC origins, Anycast IP lists, key value stores
- Monitoring subscriptions
- CloudFormation provisioning of custom
AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy resources
(literal custom or managed policy IDs are supported on distributions)
- Persistent edge caching and global CDN propagation