aws cloudfront get-distribution-config

Get the configuration information about a distribution. AWS CLI reference

1 example 1 option Its page in the AWS CLI reference

Examples

from aws-cli, each command read by CmdID

To get a CloudFront distribution configuration

The following get-distribution-config example gets metadata about the CloudFront distribution with the ID EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE, including its ETag. The distribution ID is returned in the create-distribution and list-distributions commands.

aws cloudfront get-distribution-config --id EDFDVBD6EXAMPLEIdentify

--idThe distribution's ID.

Its output, shortened

{
    "ETag": "E2QWRUHEXAMPLE",
    "DistributionConfig": {
        "CallerReference": "cli-example",
        "Aliases": {
            "Quantity": 0
        },
        "DefaultRootObject": "index.html",
        "Origins": {
            "Quantity": 1,
            "Items": [
                {
                    "Id": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example",
                    "DomainName": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com",
                    "OriginPath": "",
                    "CustomHeaders": {
                        "Quantity": 0
                    },
                    "S3OriginConfig": {
                        "OriginAccessIdentity": ""
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        "OriginGroups": {
            "Quantity": 0
        },
        "DefaultCacheBehavior": {
            "TargetOriginId": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com-cli-example",
            "ForwardedValues": {
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For more information, see Configure distributions in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Options

1 in the AWS CLI reference

--idThe distribution's ID.