# AWS CloudFront API (canonical)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/canonical/  
**Provider:** CloudFront — https://apis.io/providers/cloudfront/  
**Base URL:** https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

AWS CloudFront API (canonical) is one of 7 APIs that [CloudFront](https://apis.io/providers/cloudfront/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Canonical and REST. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- **Developer Guide** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudfront/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other CloudFront APIs (6)

- [CloudFront CachePolicies API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-cachepolicies-api/)
- [CloudFront Distributions API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-distributions-api/)
- [CloudFront Functions API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-functions-api/)
- [CloudFront Invalidations API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-invalidations-api/)
- [CloudFront OriginAccessControl API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-originaccesscontrol-api/)
- [CloudFront PublicKeys API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/cloudfront-publickeys-api/)

## Tags

Canonical, REST

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cloudfront/canonical/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cloudfront/.