# Amazon CloudFront

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudfront/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds across 750+ globally dispersed Points of Presence.

## Kin Score — 55.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 78.9 |
| Access Clarity | 78.9 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Amazon CloudFront Distributions API** — Operations for managing CloudFront distributions
- **Amazon CloudFront Functions API** — Operations for managing CloudFront functions
- **Amazon CloudFront Invalidations API** — Operations for managing cache invalidations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Cloudfront Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 5 acting

## Security (3)

- **Amazon Cloudfront Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Cloudfront Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Cloudfront Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Cloudfront Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Website Acceleration** — Fast, secure global content delivery for web applications.
- **Video Streaming** — Live and on-demand video streaming with Media Services integration.
- **API Acceleration** — Low-latency API delivery with edge termination and WebSocket support.
- **Software Distribution** — Scale patch and software update delivery globally to millions of endpoints.

## Tags

CloudFront, CDN, Content Delivery, Edge

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudfront/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.