Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront Invalidations API

Operations for managing cache invalidations

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POST /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation Amazon CloudFront Create an invalidation #

GET /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation Amazon CloudFront List invalidations for a distribution #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon CloudFront Distributions Invalidations API
  description: Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, and other web assets. The CloudFront API enables you to programmatically manage distributions, invalidations, functions, and other CloudFront resources.
  version: '2020-05-31'
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- url: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon CloudFront API endpoint
tags:
- name: Invalidations
  description: Operations for managing cache invalidations
paths:
  /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation:
    post:
      operationId: CreateInvalidation
      summary: Amazon CloudFront Create an invalidation
      description: Create a new invalidation to remove content from CloudFront edge caches. An invalidation forces CloudFront to re-request the content from the origin the next time a viewer requests it.
      parameters:
      - name: DistributionId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The distribution's ID.
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/xml:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidationBatch'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Invalidation created successfully
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Invalidation'
          headers:
            Location:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: The fully qualified URI of the invalidation
        '400':
          description: Bad request
        '404':
          description: Distribution not found
      tags:
      - Invalidations
    get:
      operationId: ListInvalidations
      summary: Amazon CloudFront List invalidations for a distribution
      description: Lists invalidation batches for the specified distribution.
      parameters:
      - name: DistributionId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The distribution's ID.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: Marker
        in: query
        description: Use this parameter when paginating results to indicate where to begin in your list of invalidation batches.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: MaxItems
        in: query
        description: The maximum number of invalidation batches to return.
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidationList'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
        '404':
          description: Distribution not found
      tags:
      - Invalidations
components:
  schemas:
    Invalidation:
      type: object
      properties:
        Id:
          type: string
          description: The identifier for the invalidation request.
        Status:
          type: string
          description: The status of the invalidation request.
        CreateTime:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The date and time the invalidation request was created.
        InvalidationBatch:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidationBatch'
    InvalidationBatch:
      type: object
      required:
      - Paths
      - CallerReference
      properties:
        Paths:
          type: object
          properties:
            Quantity:
              type: integer
              description: The number of invalidation paths specified.
            Items:
              type: array
              items:
                type: string
              description: A list of paths to invalidate (e.g., /images/image1.jpg, /images/*).
        CallerReference:
          type: string
          description: A unique value that ensures the request can't be replayed.
    InvalidationList:
      type: object
      properties:
        Marker:
          type: string
        NextMarker:
          type: string
        MaxItems:
          type: integer
        IsTruncated:
          type: boolean
        Quantity:
          type: integer
        Items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Invalidation'

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