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Cloudfront Authentication

Authentication

CloudFront secures its APIs with apiKey across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: apiKey Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in: header

Security Schemes

sigv4 apiKey
· in: header (Authorization)

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/cloudfront-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  api_key_in:
  - header
schemes:
- name: sigv4
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: Authorization
  description: |-
    AWS Signature Version 4. Signing service name is `cloudfront`,
    signing region is `us-east-1`. Authorization is supplied via
    `Authorization` and `X-Amz-Date` headers (and `X-Amz-Security-Token`
    when using temporary credentials).
  sources:
  - openapi/cloudfront-openapi.yml