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Use CreateDistribution with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use CreateDistribution.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To create a CloudFront distribution

The following example creates a distribution for an S3 bucket named awsexamplebucket, and also specifies index.html as the default root object, using command line arguments:

aws cloudfront create-distribution \ --origin-domain-name awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com \ --default-root-object index.html

Instead of using command line arguments, you can provide the distribution configuration in a JSON file, as shown in the following example:

aws cloudfront create-distribution \ --distribution-config file://dist-config.json

The file dist-config.json is a JSON document in the current folder that contains the following:

{ "CallerReference": "cli-example", "Aliases": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultRootObject": "index.html", "Origins": { "Quantity": 1, "Items": [ { "Id": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example", "DomainName": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com", "OriginPath": "", "CustomHeaders": { "Quantity": 0 }, "S3OriginConfig": { "OriginAccessIdentity": "" } } ] }, "OriginGroups": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultCacheBehavior": { "TargetOriginId": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example", "ForwardedValues": { "QueryString": false, "Cookies": { "Forward": "none" }, "Headers": { "Quantity": 0 }, "QueryStringCacheKeys": { "Quantity": 0 } }, "TrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all", "MinTTL": 0, "AllowedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ], "CachedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ] } }, "SmoothStreaming": false, "DefaultTTL": 86400, "MaxTTL": 31536000, "Compress": false, "LambdaFunctionAssociations": { "Quantity": 0 }, "FieldLevelEncryptionId": "" }, "CacheBehaviors": { "Quantity": 0 }, "CustomErrorResponses": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Comment": "", "Logging": { "Enabled": false, "IncludeCookies": false, "Bucket": "", "Prefix": "" }, "PriceClass": "PriceClass_All", "Enabled": true, "ViewerCertificate": { "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true, "MinimumProtocolVersion": "TLSv1", "CertificateSource": "cloudfront" }, "Restrictions": { "GeoRestriction": { "RestrictionType": "none", "Quantity": 0 } }, "WebACLId": "", "HttpVersion": "http2", "IsIPV6Enabled": true }

Whether you provide the distribution information with a command line argument or a JSON file, the output is the same:

{ "Location": "https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2019-03-26/distribution/EMLARXS9EXAMPLE", "ETag": "E9LHASXEXAMPLE", "Distribution": { "Id": "EMLARXS9EXAMPLE", "ARN": "arn:aws:cloudfront::123456789012:distribution/EMLARXS9EXAMPLE", "Status": "InProgress", "LastModifiedTime": "2019-11-22T00:55:15.705Z", "InProgressInvalidationBatches": 0, "DomainName": "d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net", "ActiveTrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "DistributionConfig": { "CallerReference": "cli-example", "Aliases": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultRootObject": "index.html", "Origins": { "Quantity": 1, "Items": [ { "Id": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example", "DomainName": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com", "OriginPath": "", "CustomHeaders": { "Quantity": 0 }, "S3OriginConfig": { "OriginAccessIdentity": "" } } ] }, "OriginGroups": { "Quantity": 0 }, "DefaultCacheBehavior": { "TargetOriginId": "awsexamplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example", "ForwardedValues": { "QueryString": false, "Cookies": { "Forward": "none" }, "Headers": { "Quantity": 0 }, "QueryStringCacheKeys": { "Quantity": 0 } }, "TrustedSigners": { "Enabled": false, "Quantity": 0 }, "ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all", "MinTTL": 0, "AllowedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ], "CachedMethods": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "HEAD", "GET" ] } }, "SmoothStreaming": false, "DefaultTTL": 86400, "MaxTTL": 31536000, "Compress": false, "LambdaFunctionAssociations": { "Quantity": 0 }, "FieldLevelEncryptionId": "" }, "CacheBehaviors": { "Quantity": 0 }, "CustomErrorResponses": { "Quantity": 0 }, "Comment": "", "Logging": { "Enabled": false, "IncludeCookies": false, "Bucket": "", "Prefix": "" }, "PriceClass": "PriceClass_All", "Enabled": true, "ViewerCertificate": { "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true, "MinimumProtocolVersion": "TLSv1", "CertificateSource": "cloudfront" }, "Restrictions": { "GeoRestriction": { "RestrictionType": "none", "Quantity": 0 } }, "WebACLId": "", "HttpVersion": "http2", "IsIPV6Enabled": true } } }
Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

The following example uses an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket as a content origin.

After creating the distribution, the code creates a CloudFrontWaiter to wait until the distribution is deployed before returning the distribution.

import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import software.amazon.awssdk.core.internal.waiters.ResponseOrException; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.CloudFrontClient; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.CreateDistributionResponse; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.Distribution; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.GetDistributionResponse; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.ItemSelection; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.Method; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.model.ViewerProtocolPolicy; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudfront.waiters.CloudFrontWaiter; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client; import java.time.Instant; public class CreateDistribution { private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CreateDistribution.class); public static Distribution createDistribution(CloudFrontClient cloudFrontClient, S3Client s3Client, final String bucketName, final String keyGroupId, final String originAccessControlId) { final String region = s3Client.headBucket(b -> b.bucket(bucketName)).sdkHttpResponse().headers() .get("x-amz-bucket-region").get(0); final String originDomain = bucketName + ".s3." + region + ".amazonaws.com"; String originId = originDomain; // Use the originDomain value for the originId. // The service API requires some deprecated methods, such as // DefaultCacheBehavior.Builder#minTTL and #forwardedValue. CreateDistributionResponse createDistResponse = cloudFrontClient.createDistribution(builder -> builder .distributionConfig(b1 -> b1 .origins(b2 -> b2 .quantity(1) .items(b3 -> b3 .domainName(originDomain) .id(originId) .s3OriginConfig(builder4 -> builder4 .originAccessIdentity( "")) .originAccessControlId( originAccessControlId))) .defaultCacheBehavior(b2 -> b2 .viewerProtocolPolicy(ViewerProtocolPolicy.ALLOW_ALL) .targetOriginId(originId) .minTTL(200L) .forwardedValues(b5 -> b5 .cookies(cp -> cp .forward(ItemSelection.NONE)) .queryString(true)) .trustedKeyGroups(b3 -> b3 .quantity(1) .items(keyGroupId) .enabled(true)) .allowedMethods(b4 -> b4 .quantity(2) .items(Method.HEAD, Method.GET) .cachedMethods(b5 -> b5 .quantity(2) .items(Method.HEAD, Method.GET)))) .cacheBehaviors(b -> b .quantity(1) .items(b2 -> b2 .pathPattern("/index.html") .viewerProtocolPolicy( ViewerProtocolPolicy.ALLOW_ALL) .targetOriginId(originId) .trustedKeyGroups(b3 -> b3 .quantity(1) .items(keyGroupId) .enabled(true)) .minTTL(200L) .forwardedValues(b4 -> b4 .cookies(cp -> cp .forward(ItemSelection.NONE)) .queryString(true)) .allowedMethods(b5 -> b5.quantity(2) .items(Method.HEAD, Method.GET) .cachedMethods(b6 -> b6 .quantity(2) .items(Method.HEAD, Method.GET))))) .enabled(true) .comment("Distribution built with java") .callerReference(Instant.now().toString()))); final Distribution distribution = createDistResponse.distribution(); logger.info("Distribution created. DomainName: [{}] Id: [{}]", distribution.domainName(), distribution.id()); logger.info("Waiting for distribution to be deployed ..."); try (CloudFrontWaiter cfWaiter = CloudFrontWaiter.builder().client(cloudFrontClient).build()) { ResponseOrException<GetDistributionResponse> responseOrException = cfWaiter .waitUntilDistributionDeployed(builder -> builder.id(distribution.id())) .matched(); responseOrException.response() .orElseThrow(() -> new RuntimeException("Distribution not created")); logger.info("Distribution deployed. DomainName: [{}] Id: [{}]", distribution.domainName(), distribution.id()); } return distribution; } }
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: Creates a basic CloudFront distribution, configured with logging and caching.

$origin = New-Object Amazon.CloudFront.Model.Origin $origin.DomainName = "ps-cmdlet-sample.s3.amazonaws.com" $origin.Id = "UniqueOrigin1" $origin.S3OriginConfig = New-Object Amazon.CloudFront.Model.S3OriginConfig $origin.S3OriginConfig.OriginAccessIdentity = "" New-CFDistribution ` -DistributionConfig_Enabled $true ` -DistributionConfig_Comment "Test distribution" ` -Origins_Item $origin ` -Origins_Quantity 1 ` -Logging_Enabled $true ` -Logging_IncludeCookie $true ` -Logging_Bucket ps-cmdlet-sample-logging.s3.amazonaws.com ` -Logging_Prefix "help/" ` -DistributionConfig_CallerReference Client1 ` -DistributionConfig_DefaultRootObject index.html ` -DefaultCacheBehavior_TargetOriginId $origin.Id ` -ForwardedValues_QueryString $true ` -Cookies_Forward all ` -WhitelistedNames_Quantity 0 ` -TrustedSigners_Enabled $false ` -TrustedSigners_Quantity 0 ` -DefaultCacheBehavior_ViewerProtocolPolicy allow-all ` -DefaultCacheBehavior_MinTTL 1000 ` -DistributionConfig_PriceClass "PriceClass_All" ` -CacheBehaviors_Quantity 0 ` -Aliases_Quantity 0
  • For API details, see CreateDistribution in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using CloudFront with an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.