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 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CachePolicies API, Distributions API, Functions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Alias, CDN, Caching, Content Delivery, and Edge Computing.

CloudFront’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, changelog, CLI, API reference, getting-started guide, and 35 more developer resources.

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65.7/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Alias CDN Caching Content Delivery Edge ComputingLambda@EdgeNetwork

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Composite quality — 65.7/100 · strong

Contract Quality 11.3 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 13.2 / 18

Access Clarity 16.6 / 18

Operational Transparency 8.9 / 12

Contract Governance 2.0 / 11

Discoverability 7.8 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

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

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.

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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 PublicKeys API

The PublicKeys API from CloudFront — 1 operation(s) for publickeys.

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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

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

Idempotency

DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Compliance

Security

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Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Support

SLA

FAQ

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Canonical

Canonical

Source (apis.yml)

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: '2026-09-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: company
x-alias-of: amazon-cloudfront
tags:
- Alias
- 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-publickeys-api
  name: CloudFront PublicKeys API
  description: The PublicKeys API from CloudFront — 1 operation(s) for publickeys.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  baseURL: https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - PublicKeys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudfront-publickeys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cloudfront-publickeys-api-overlay.yaml
common:
- 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: aws
x-relationship: product

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