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CloudFront CachePolicies API

The CachePolicies API from CloudFront — 2 operation(s) for cachepolicies.

CloudFront CachePolicies API is one of 7 APIs that CloudFront publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include CachePolicies. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2020-05-31.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com.

4 operations 2 paths 0 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2020-05-31
Base URL
https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

CloudFront CachePolicies API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (sigv4). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • sigv4 — 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 (a…

Paths & Operations 4

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

CachePolicies 4
GET
/2020-05-31/cache-policy
ListCachePolicies
listCachePolicies → 200
POST
/2020-05-31/cache-policy
CreateCachePolicy
createCachePolicy → 201
GET
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id}
GetCachePolicy
getCachePolicy 1 param → 200
DELETE
/2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id}
DeleteCachePolicy
deleteCachePolicy 1 param → 204

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

cloudfront-cachepolicies-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs CloudFront publishes across the network.

AWS CloudFront API (canonical)
CloudFront Distributions API
CloudFront Functions API
CloudFront Invalidations API
CloudFront OriginAccessControl API
CloudFront PublicKeys API
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