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CloudFront

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.

CloudFront publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CachePolicies API, Distributions API, Functions API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include CDN, Caching, Content Delivery, Edge Computing, and Lambda@Edge.

CloudFront’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, changelog, CLI, API reference, getting-started guide, and 37 more developer resources.

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67.2/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CDNCachingContent DeliveryEdge ComputingLambda@EdgeNetworks

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management
BC-600
Distributions
POST /2020-05-31/distribution PUT /2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/config

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 67.2/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 8.5 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 15
Access Clarity 13.8 / 15
Operational Transparency 7.4 / 10
Contract Governance 1.6 / 9
Discoverability 6.4 / 8
Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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What adopting Amazon CloudFront moves on the Kin Score 0

Amazon CloudFront is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.

cdnmeasured5 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

CloudFront moves no Kin Score check on its own. Its agent features are real but enforcement-side. AWS WAF Bot Control verifies Web Bot Auth signatures from incoming agents and can answer AI bots with an x402 HTTP 402 (the Monetize action, CloudFront only). Neither produces the /.well-known UCP/ACP document agentic_commerce reads or the signing-key directory consent_identity points at. CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge can serve anything, but the credit goes to the file the provider writes, not to the edge.

Nothing the Kin Score reads. Amazon CloudFront's features serve the provider's operations, not the published surface the score measures.

46 detected customers vs 5170 comparable providers: composite 47.2 vs 48.0, agent readiness 30.3 vs 32.5. Association, not cause.
Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Amazon CloudFront would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.
What Amazon CloudFront ships that earns nothing (5)
  • AI traffic monetization (Monetize action, x402) — agentic_commerce reads a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json. The Monetize action is a per-request x402 402 exchange, and the fetched pages describe no discovery document.
  • Web Bot Auth verification — This verifies OTHER parties’ signed agents. The WebBotAuth/HTTPMessageSignatures pointers point at a key directory that only a bot operator publishes.
  • AWS WAF rate-based rules — The dimension reads RateLimit headers documented in the provider’s OpenAPI, or a rate_limits artifact. Rate-based rules enforce limits and the fetched docs describe no standard headers.
  • CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge — A function can serve security.txt or an api-catalog, but the provider writes the document. Any origin could serve the same file.
  • AWS WAF Bot Control — Caching, TLS termination, DDoS absorption and bot filtering change nothing any check reads.

A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact

APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

AWS CloudFront API (canonical)

The AWS CloudFront REST API exposes operations for managing distributions (CreateDistribution, GetDistribution, UpdateDistribution, DeleteDistribution, ListDistributions), origi...

CloudFront CachePolicies API

The CachePolicies API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for cachepolicies.

CloudFront Distributions API

The Distributions API from CloudFront — 3 operation(s) for distributions.

CloudFront Functions API

The Functions API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for functions.

CloudFront Invalidations API

The Invalidations API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for invalidations.

CloudFront OriginAccessControl API

The OriginAccessControl API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for originaccesscontrol.

CloudFront Public Keys API

The Public Keys API from CloudFront — 1 operation(s) for public keys.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies Distributions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies Functions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies Invalidations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies OriginAccessControl API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront CachePolicies PublicKeys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon CloudFront API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

CloudFront MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cloudfront Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudfront Rate Limits

12 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cloudfront Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cloudfront Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cloudfront Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Cloudfront Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cloudfront Agentic Access

23 operations · 11 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

23 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 ToolCrosswalk
ToolCrosswalk
 CLI
CLI
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 Compliance
Compliance
 Security
Security

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Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits
 Support
Support
 SLA
SLA
 FAQ
FAQ

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

VendorFacets
VendorFacets
 Overlay
Overlay
 CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap
 Canonical
Canonical

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudfront.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudfront/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: company
tags:
- AWS
- CDN
- Caching
- Content Delivery
- Edge Computing
- Lambda@Edge
- Networks
tags_raw:
- 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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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
  - url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
    type: APIReference
  - url: smithy/cloudfront-2020-05-31.json
    type: Smithy
    name: AWS CloudFront Smithy 2.0 model (167 operations)
  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.
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-cachepolicies-api
  name: CloudFront CachePolicies API
  description: The CachePolicies API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for cachepolicies.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - CachePolicies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-cachepolicies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-cachepolicies-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-distributions-api
  name: CloudFront Distributions API
  description: The Distributions API from CloudFront — 3 operation(s) for distributions.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Distributions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-distributions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-distributions-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-functions-api
  name: CloudFront Functions API
  description: The Functions API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for functions.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Functions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-functions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-functions-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-invalidations-api
  name: CloudFront Invalidations API
  description: The Invalidations API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for invalidations.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Invalidations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-invalidations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-invalidations-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-originaccesscontrol-api
  name: CloudFront OriginAccessControl API
  description: The OriginAccessControl API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for originaccesscontrol.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - OriginAccessControl
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-originaccesscontrol-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-originaccesscontrol-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cloudfront:cloudfront-public-keys-api
  name: CloudFront Public Keys API
  description: The Public Keys API from CloudFront — 1 operation(s) for public keys.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - PublicKeys
  tags_raw:
  - Public Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-public-keys-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/cloudfront-vendor-facets.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cloudfront-publickeys-api-overlay.yaml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cloudfront-capability-edges.yml
  name: CloudFront Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloudfront-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cloudfront-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cloudfront-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloudfront-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudfront-authentication.yml
- 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
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cloudfront-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/cloudfront-packages.yml
  name: First-party AWS SDK clients for CloudFront
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cloudfront-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cloudfront-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/cloudfront-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cloudfront-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cloudfront-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cloudfront-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cloudfront-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cloudfront-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/cloudfront-conventions.yml
  name: CallerReference replay protection (partial coverage) + ETag/If-Match concurrency
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cloudfront-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/cloudfront-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cloudfront-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cloudfront-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cloudfront-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStarted.html
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: SLA
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/sla/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kinlane@gmail.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 29
  pass: local-v3
x-parent: amazon-web-services
x-relationship: product
x-aliases:
- Amazon CloudFront

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