CloudFront · Rate Limits

Cloudfront Rate Limits

Cloudfront Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for CloudFront on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 12 rate-limit definitions.

Limit state is signalled in the rate_limit_headers, retry_after, and note response headers.

Tagged areas include CDN, Caching, Content Delivery, Edge Computing, and Lambda@Edge.

12 Limits rate_limit_headersretry_afternote
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-05 — docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuid....
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CDNCachingContent DeliveryEdge ComputingLambda@EdgeNetworks

Limits

Requests per second per distribution per-distribution
· per 1s
250000/1s
Does not apply to distributions on a flat-rate pricing plan.
Data transfer rate per distribution per-distribution
150
Does not apply to distributions on a flat-rate pricing plan.
Invalidation paths or tags per-account
· per 1s
150/1s
Wildcard invalidations per-account
· per 1s
1/1s
Distributions per AWS account per-account
500
Alternate domain names (CNAMEs) per distribution per-distribution
100
Cache behaviors per distribution per-distribution
75
Origins per distribution per-distribution
100
Custom cache policies per AWS account per-account
20
Origin access controls per AWS account per-account
100
Maximum length of a request or origin response (headers + query strings, excluding body) per-request
32768
Key value store update payload per-request
50

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/cloudfront-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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