Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudFront - Service Authorization Reference

# Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront (service prefix: `cloudfront` ) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

- Learn how to configure this service .

- View a list of the API operations available for this service .

- Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

###### Topics

- Actions defined by Amazon CloudFront
- Resource types defined by Amazon CloudFront
- Condition keys for Amazon CloudFront

## Actions defined by Amazon CloudFront

You can specify the following actions in the `Action` element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the `Resource` element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the `Resource` element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's `Condition` element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

###### Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table .

Actions | Description | Access level | Resource types (*required) | Condition keys | Dependent actions
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
AssociateAlias | Grants permission to associate an alias to a CloudFront distribution | Write | distribution* |  |
CopyDistribution | Grants permission to copy an existing distribution and create a new web distribution | Write | distribution* |  | cloudfront:CopyDistribution cloudfront:CreateDistribution cloudfront:GetDistribution
CreateCachePolicy | Grants permission to add a new cache policy to CloudFront | Write | cache-policy* |  |
CreateCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity | Grants permission to create a new CloudFront origin access identity | Write | origin-access-identity* |  |
CreateContinuousDeploymentPolicy | Grants permission to add a new continuous-deployment policy to CloudFront | Write | continuous-deployment-policy* |  |
CreateDistribution | Grants permission to create a new web distribution | Write | distribution* |  |
CreateFieldLevelEncryptionConfig | Grants permission to create a new field-level encryption configuration | Write |  |  |
CreateFieldLevelEncryptionProfile | Grants permission to create a field-level encryption profile | Write |  |  |
CreateFunction | Grants permission to create a CloudFront function | Write | function* |  |
CreateInvalidation | Grants permission to create a new invalidation batch request | Write | distribution* |  |
CreateKeyGroup | Grants permission to add a new key group to CloudFront | Write |  |  |
CreateMonitoringSubscription | Grants permission to enable additional CloudWatch metrics for the specified CloudFront distribution. The additional metrics incur an additional cost | Write |  |  |
CreateOriginAccessControl | Grants permission to create a new origin access control | Write |  |  |
CreateOriginRequestPolicy | Grants permission to add a new origin request policy to CloudFront | Write | origin-request-policy* |  |
CreatePublicKey | Grants permission to add a new public key to CloudFront | Write |  |  |
CreateRealtimeLogConfig | Grants permission to create a real-time log configuration | Write | realtime-log-config* |  |
CreateResponseHeadersPolicy | Grants permission to add a new response headers policy to CloudFront | Write | response-headers-policy* |  |
CreateSavingsPlan [permission only] | Grants permission to create a new savings plan | Write |  |  |
CreateStreamingDistribution | Grants permission to create a new RTMP distribution | Write | streaming-distribution* |  |
CreateStreamingDistributionWithTags | Grants permission to create a new RTMP distribution with tags | Write | streaming-distribution* |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys |
DeleteCachePolicy | Grants permission to delete a cache policy | Write | cache-policy* |  |
DeleteCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity | Grants permission to delete a CloudFront origin access identity | Write | origin-access-identity* |  |
DeleteContinuousDeploymentPolicy | Grants permission to delete a continuous-deployment policy | Write | continuous-deployment-policy* |  |
DeleteDistribution | Grants permission to delete a web distribution | Write | distribution* |  |
DeleteFieldLevelEncryptionConfig | Grants permission to delete a field-level encryption configuration | Write | field-level-encryption-config* |  |
DeleteFieldLevelEncryptionProfile | Grants permission to delete a field-level encryption profile | Write | field-level-encryption-profile* |  |
DeleteFunction | Grants permission to delete a CloudFront function | Write | function* |  |
DeleteKeyGroup | Grants permission to delete a key group | Write |  |  |
DeleteMonitoringSubscription | Grants permission to disable additional CloudWatch metrics for the specified CloudFront distribution | Write |  |  |
DeleteOriginAccessControl | Grants permission to delete an origin access control | Write | origin-access-control* |  |
DeleteOriginRequestPolicy | Grants permission to delete an origin request policy | Write | origin-request-policy* |  |
DeletePublicKey | Grants permission to delete a public key from CloudFront | Write |  |  |
DeleteRealtimeLogConfig | Grants permission to delete a real-time log configuration | Write | realtime-log-config* |  |
DeleteResponseHeadersPolicy | Grants permission to delete a response headers policy | Write | response-headers-policy* |  |
DeleteStreamingDistribution | Grants permission to delete an RTMP distribution | Write | streaming-distribution* |  |
DescribeFunction | Grants permission to get a CloudFront function summary | Read | function* |  |
GetCachePolicy | Grants permission to get the cache policy | Read | cache-policy* |  |
GetCachePolicyConfig | Grants permission to get the cache policy configuration | Read | cache-policy* |  |
GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity | Grants permission to get the information about a CloudFront origin access identity | Read | origin-access-identity* |  |
GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig | Grants permission to get the configuration information about a Cloudfront origin access identity | Read | origin-access-identity* |  |
GetContinuousDeploymentPolicy | Grants permission to get the continuous-deployment policy | Read | continuous-deployment-policy* |  |
GetContinuousDeploymentPolicyConfig | Grants permission to get the continuous-deployment policy configuration | Read | continuous-deployment-policy* |  |
GetDistribution | Grants permission to get the information about a web distribution | Read | distribution* |  |
GetDistributionConfig | Grants permission to get the configuration information about a distribution | Read | distribution* |  |
GetFieldLevelEncryption | Grants permission to get the field-level encryption configuration information | Read | field-level-encryption-config* |  |
GetFieldLevelEncryptionConfig | Grants permission to get the field-level encryption configuration information | Read | field-level-encryption-config* |  |
GetFieldLevelEncryptionProfile | Grants permission to get the field-level encryption configuration information | Read | field-level-encryption-profile* |  |
GetFieldLevelEncryptionProfileConfig | Grants permission to get the field-level encryption profile configuration information | Read | field-level-encryption-profile* |  |
GetFunction | Grants permission to get a CloudFront function's code | Read | function* |  |
GetInvalidation | Grants permission to get the information about an invalidation | Read | distribution* |  |
GetKeyGroup | Grants permission to get a key group | Read |  |  |
GetKeyGroupConfig | Grants permission to get a key group configuration | Read |  |  |
GetMonitoringSubscription | Grants permission to get information about whether additional CloudWatch metrics are enabled for the specified CloudFront distribution | Read |  |  |
GetOriginAccessControl | Grants permission to get the origin access control | Read | origin-access-control* |  |
GetOriginAccessControlConfig | Grants permission to get the origin access control configuration | Read | origin-access-control* |  |
GetOriginRequestPolicy | Grants permission to get the origin request policy | Read | origin-request-policy* |  |
GetOriginRequestPolicyConfig | Grants permission to get the origin request policy configuration | Read | origin-request-policy* |  |
GetPublicKey | Grants permission to get the public key information | Read |  |  |
GetPublicKeyConfig | Grants permission to get the public key configuration information | Read |  |  |
GetRealtimeLogConfig | Grants permission to get a real-time log configuration | Read | realtime-log-config* |  |
GetResponseHeadersPolicy | Grants permission to get the response headers policy | Read | response-headers-policy* |  |
GetResponseHeadersPolicyConfig | Grants permission to get the response headers policy configuration | Read | response-headers-policy* |  |
GetSavingsPlan [permission only] | Grants permission to get a savings plan | Read |  |  |
GetStreamingDistribution | Grants permission to get the information about an RTMP distribution | Read | streaming-distribution* |  |
GetStreamingDistributionConfig | Grants permission to get the configuration information about a streaming distribution | Read | streaming-distribution* |  |
ListCachePolicies | Grants permission to list all cache policies that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentities | Grants permission to list your CloudFront origin access identities | List |  |  |
ListConflictingAliases | Grants permission to list all aliases that conflict with the given alias in CloudFront | List | distribution* |  |
ListContinuousDeploymentPolicies | Grants permission to list all continuous-deployment policies in the account | List |  |  |
ListDistributions | Grants permission to list the distributions associated with your AWS account | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByCachePolicyId | Grants permission to list distribution IDs for distributions that have a cache behavior that's associated with the specified cache policy | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByKeyGroup | Grants permission to list distribution IDs for distributions that have a cache behavior that's associated with the specified key group | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByLambdaFunction [permission only] | Grants permission to list the distributions associated a Lambda function | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByOriginRequestPolicyId | Grants permission to list distribution IDs for distributions that have a cache behavior that's associated with the specified origin request policy | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByRealtimeLogConfig | Grants permission to get a list of distributions that have a cache behavior that’s associated with the specified real-time log configuration | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByResponseHeadersPolicyId | Grants permission to list distribution IDs for distributions that have a cache behavior that's associated with the specified response headers policy | List |  |  |
ListDistributionsByWebACLId | Grants permission to list the distributions associated with your AWS account with given AWS WAF web ACL | List |  |  |
ListFieldLevelEncryptionConfigs | Grants permission to list all field-level encryption configurations that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListFieldLevelEncryptionProfiles | Grants permission to list all field-level encryption profiles that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListFunctions | Grants permission to get a list of CloudFront functions | List |  |  |
ListInvalidations | Grants permission to list your invalidation batches | List | distribution* |  |
ListKeyGroups | Grants permission to list all key groups that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListOriginAccessControls | Grants permission to list all origin access controls in the account | List |  |  |
ListOriginRequestPolicies | Grants permission to list all origin request policies that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListPublicKeys | Grants permission to list all public keys that have been added to CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListRateCards [permission only] | Grants permission to list CloudFront rate cards for the account | List |  |  |
ListRealtimeLogConfigs | Grants permission to get a list of real-time log configurations | List |  |  |
ListResponseHeadersPolicies | Grants permission to list all response headers policies that have been created in CloudFront for this account | List |  |  |
ListSavingsPlans [permission only] | Grants permission to list savings plans in the account | List |  |  |
ListStreamingDistributions | Grants permission to list your RTMP distributions | List |  |  |
ListTagsForResource | Grants permission to list tags for a CloudFront resource | Read | distribution |  |
ListUsages [permission only] | Grants permission to list CloudFront usage | List |  |  |
PublishFunction | Grants permission to publish a CloudFront function | Write | function* |  |
TagResource | Grants permission to add tags to a CloudFront resource | Tagging | distribution |  |
streaming-distribution |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys |
TestFunction | Grants permission to test a CloudFront function | Write | function* |  |
UntagResource | Grants permission to remove tags from a CloudFront resource | Tagging | distribution |  |
streaming-distribution |  |
| aws:TagKeys |
UpdateCachePolicy | Grants permission to update a cache policy | Write | cache-policy* |  |
UpdateCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity | Grants permission to set the configuration for a CloudFront origin access identity | Write | origin-access-identity* |  |
UpdateContinuousDeploymentPolicy | Grants permission to update a continuous-deployment policy | Write | continuous-deployment-policy* |  |
UpdateDistribution | Grants permission to update the configuration for a web distribution | Write | distribution* |  |
UpdateFieldLevelEncryptionConfig | Grants permission to update a field-level encryption configuration | Write |  |  |
UpdateFieldLevelEncryptionProfile | Grants permission to update a field-level encryption profile | Write | field-level-encryption-profile* |  |
UpdateFunction | Grants permission to update a CloudFront function | Write | function* |  |
UpdateKeyGroup | Grants permission to update a key group | Write |  |  |
UpdateOriginAccessControl | Grants permission to update an origin access control | Write | origin-access-control* |  |
UpdateOriginRequestPolicy | Grants permission to update an origin request policy | Write | origin-request-policy* |  |
UpdatePublicKey | Grants permission to update public key information | Write |  |  |
UpdateRealtimeLogConfig | Grants permission to update a real-time log configuration | Write | realtime-log-config* |  |
UpdateResponseHeadersPolicy | Grants permission to update a response headers policy | Write | response-headers-policy* |  |
UpdateSavingsPlan [permission only] | Grants permission to update a savings plan | Write |  |  |
UpdateStreamingDistribution | Grants permission to update the configuration for an RTMP distribution | Write | streaming-distribution* |  |

## Resource types defined by Amazon CloudFront

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the `Resource` element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table .

Resource types | ARN | Condition keys
--- | --- | ---
distribution | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:distribution/$ { DistributionId}` | aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
streaming-distribution | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:streaming-distribution/$ { DistributionId}` | aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
origin-access-identity | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:origin-access-identity/$ { Id}` |
field-level-encryption-config | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:field-level-encryption-config/$ { Id}` |
field-level-encryption-profile | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:field-level-encryption-profile/$ { Id}` |
cache-policy | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:cache-policy/$ { Id}` |
origin-request-policy | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:origin-request-policy/$ { Id}` |
realtime-log-config | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:realtime-log-config/$ { Name}` |
function | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:function/$ { Name}` |
response-headers-policy | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:response-headers-policy/$ { Id}` |
origin-access-control | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:origin-access-control/$ { Id}` |
continuous-deployment-policy | `arn:$ { Partition}:cloudfront::$ { Account}:continuous-deployment-policy/$ { Id}` |

## Condition keys for Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront defines the following condition keys that can be used in the `Condition` element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table .

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys .

Condition keys | Description | Type
--- | --- | ---
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} | Filters access by the presence of tag key-value pairs in the request | String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} | Filters access by tag key-value pairs attached to the resource | String
aws:TagKeys | Filters access by the presence of tag keys in the request | ArrayOfString

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