# CloudFront

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cloudfront/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 30.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 18.4 |
| Access Clarity | 18.4 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cloudfront Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 11 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Cloudfront Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Cloudfront Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Cloudfront Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Cloudfront Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Tags

Alias, CDN, Caching, Content Delivery, Edge Computing, Lambda@Edge, Network

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