CopyDistribution - Amazon CloudFront
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CopyDistribution

Creates a staging distribution using the configuration of the provided primary distribution. A staging distribution is a copy of an existing distribution (called the primary distribution) that you can use in a continuous deployment workflow.

After you create a staging distribution, you can use UpdateDistribution to modify the staging distribution's configuration. Then you can use CreateContinuousDeploymentPolicy to incrementally move traffic to the staging distribution.

This API operation requires the following IAM permissions:

Request Syntax

POST /2020-05-31/distribution/PrimaryDistributionId/copy HTTP/1.1
Staging: Staging
If-Match: IfMatch
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CopyDistributionRequest xmlns="http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2020-05-31/">
   <CallerReference>string</CallerReference>
   <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
</CopyDistributionRequest>

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

If-Match

The version identifier of the primary distribution whose configuration you are copying. This is the ETag value returned in the response to GetDistribution and GetDistributionConfig.

PrimaryDistributionId

The identifier of the primary distribution whose configuration you are copying. To get a distribution ID, use ListDistributions.

Required: Yes

Staging

The type of distribution that your primary distribution will be copied to. The only valid value is True, indicating that you are copying to a staging distribution.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in XML format.

CopyDistributionRequest

Root level tag for the CopyDistributionRequest parameters.

Required: Yes

CallerReference

A value that uniquely identifies a request to create a resource. This helps to prevent CloudFront from creating a duplicate resource if you accidentally resubmit an identical request.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Enabled

A Boolean flag to specify the state of the staging distribution when it's created. When you set this value to True, the staging distribution is enabled. When you set this value to False, the staging distribution is disabled.

If you omit this field, the default value is True.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 201
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Distribution>
   <ActiveTrustedKeyGroups>
      <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
      <Items>
         <KeyGroup>
            <KeyGroupId>string</KeyGroupId>
            <KeyPairIds>
               <Items>
                  <KeyPairId>string</KeyPairId>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </KeyPairIds>
         </KeyGroup>
      </Items>
      <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
   </ActiveTrustedKeyGroups>
   <ActiveTrustedSigners>
      <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
      <Items>
         <Signer>
            <AwsAccountNumber>string</AwsAccountNumber>
            <KeyPairIds>
               <Items>
                  <KeyPairId>string</KeyPairId>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </KeyPairIds>
         </Signer>
      </Items>
      <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
   </ActiveTrustedSigners>
   <AliasICPRecordals>
      <AliasICPRecordal>
         <CNAME>string</CNAME>
         <ICPRecordalStatus>string</ICPRecordalStatus>
      </AliasICPRecordal>
   </AliasICPRecordals>
   <ARN>string</ARN>
   <DistributionConfig>
      <Aliases>
         <Items>
            <CNAME>string</CNAME>
         </Items>
         <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
      </Aliases>
      <CacheBehaviors>
         <Items>
            <CacheBehavior>
               <AllowedMethods>
                  <CachedMethods>
                     <Items>
                        <Method>string</Method>
                     </Items>
                     <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                  </CachedMethods>
                  <Items>
                     <Method>string</Method>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </AllowedMethods>
               <CachePolicyId>string</CachePolicyId>
               <Compress>boolean</Compress>
               <DefaultTTL>long</DefaultTTL>
               <FieldLevelEncryptionId>string</FieldLevelEncryptionId>
               <ForwardedValues>
                  <Cookies>
                     <Forward>string</Forward>
                     <WhitelistedNames>
                        <Items>
                           <Name>string</Name>
                        </Items>
                        <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                     </WhitelistedNames>
                  </Cookies>
                  <Headers>
                     <Items>
                        <Name>string</Name>
                     </Items>
                     <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                  </Headers>
                  <QueryString>boolean</QueryString>
                  <QueryStringCacheKeys>
                     <Items>
                        <Name>string</Name>
                     </Items>
                     <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                  </QueryStringCacheKeys>
               </ForwardedValues>
               <FunctionAssociations>
                  <Items>
                     <FunctionAssociation>
                        <EventType>string</EventType>
                        <FunctionARN>string</FunctionARN>
                     </FunctionAssociation>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </FunctionAssociations>
               <LambdaFunctionAssociations>
                  <Items>
                     <LambdaFunctionAssociation>
                        <EventType>string</EventType>
                        <IncludeBody>boolean</IncludeBody>
                        <LambdaFunctionARN>string</LambdaFunctionARN>
                     </LambdaFunctionAssociation>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </LambdaFunctionAssociations>
               <MaxTTL>long</MaxTTL>
               <MinTTL>long</MinTTL>
               <OriginRequestPolicyId>string</OriginRequestPolicyId>
               <PathPattern>string</PathPattern>
               <RealtimeLogConfigArn>string</RealtimeLogConfigArn>
               <ResponseHeadersPolicyId>string</ResponseHeadersPolicyId>
               <SmoothStreaming>boolean</SmoothStreaming>
               <TargetOriginId>string</TargetOriginId>
               <TrustedKeyGroups>
                  <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
                  <Items>
                     <KeyGroup>string</KeyGroup>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </TrustedKeyGroups>
               <TrustedSigners>
                  <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
                  <Items>
                     <AwsAccountNumber>string</AwsAccountNumber>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </TrustedSigners>
               <ViewerProtocolPolicy>string</ViewerProtocolPolicy>
            </CacheBehavior>
         </Items>
         <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
      </CacheBehaviors>
      <CallerReference>string</CallerReference>
      <Comment>string</Comment>
      <ContinuousDeploymentPolicyId>string</ContinuousDeploymentPolicyId>
      <CustomErrorResponses>
         <Items>
            <CustomErrorResponse>
               <ErrorCachingMinTTL>long</ErrorCachingMinTTL>
               <ErrorCode>integer</ErrorCode>
               <ResponseCode>string</ResponseCode>
               <ResponsePagePath>string</ResponsePagePath>
            </CustomErrorResponse>
         </Items>
         <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
      </CustomErrorResponses>
      <DefaultCacheBehavior>
         <AllowedMethods>
            <CachedMethods>
               <Items>
                  <Method>string</Method>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </CachedMethods>
            <Items>
               <Method>string</Method>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </AllowedMethods>
         <CachePolicyId>string</CachePolicyId>
         <Compress>boolean</Compress>
         <DefaultTTL>long</DefaultTTL>
         <FieldLevelEncryptionId>string</FieldLevelEncryptionId>
         <ForwardedValues>
            <Cookies>
               <Forward>string</Forward>
               <WhitelistedNames>
                  <Items>
                     <Name>string</Name>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </WhitelistedNames>
            </Cookies>
            <Headers>
               <Items>
                  <Name>string</Name>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </Headers>
            <QueryString>boolean</QueryString>
            <QueryStringCacheKeys>
               <Items>
                  <Name>string</Name>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </QueryStringCacheKeys>
         </ForwardedValues>
         <FunctionAssociations>
            <Items>
               <FunctionAssociation>
                  <EventType>string</EventType>
                  <FunctionARN>string</FunctionARN>
               </FunctionAssociation>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </FunctionAssociations>
         <LambdaFunctionAssociations>
            <Items>
               <LambdaFunctionAssociation>
                  <EventType>string</EventType>
                  <IncludeBody>boolean</IncludeBody>
                  <LambdaFunctionARN>string</LambdaFunctionARN>
               </LambdaFunctionAssociation>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </LambdaFunctionAssociations>
         <MaxTTL>long</MaxTTL>
         <MinTTL>long</MinTTL>
         <OriginRequestPolicyId>string</OriginRequestPolicyId>
         <RealtimeLogConfigArn>string</RealtimeLogConfigArn>
         <ResponseHeadersPolicyId>string</ResponseHeadersPolicyId>
         <SmoothStreaming>boolean</SmoothStreaming>
         <TargetOriginId>string</TargetOriginId>
         <TrustedKeyGroups>
            <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
            <Items>
               <KeyGroup>string</KeyGroup>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </TrustedKeyGroups>
         <TrustedSigners>
            <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
            <Items>
               <AwsAccountNumber>string</AwsAccountNumber>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </TrustedSigners>
         <ViewerProtocolPolicy>string</ViewerProtocolPolicy>
      </DefaultCacheBehavior>
      <DefaultRootObject>string</DefaultRootObject>
      <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
      <HttpVersion>string</HttpVersion>
      <IsIPV6Enabled>boolean</IsIPV6Enabled>
      <Logging>
         <Bucket>string</Bucket>
         <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
         <IncludeCookies>boolean</IncludeCookies>
         <Prefix>string</Prefix>
      </Logging>
      <OriginGroups>
         <Items>
            <OriginGroup>
               <FailoverCriteria>
                  <StatusCodes>
                     <Items>
                        <StatusCode>integer</StatusCode>
                     </Items>
                     <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                  </StatusCodes>
               </FailoverCriteria>
               <Id>string</Id>
               <Members>
                  <Items>
                     <OriginGroupMember>
                        <OriginId>string</OriginId>
                     </OriginGroupMember>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </Members>
            </OriginGroup>
         </Items>
         <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
      </OriginGroups>
      <Origins>
         <Items>
            <Origin>
               <ConnectionAttempts>integer</ConnectionAttempts>
               <ConnectionTimeout>integer</ConnectionTimeout>
               <CustomHeaders>
                  <Items>
                     <OriginCustomHeader>
                        <HeaderName>string</HeaderName>
                        <HeaderValue>string</HeaderValue>
                     </OriginCustomHeader>
                  </Items>
                  <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
               </CustomHeaders>
               <CustomOriginConfig>
                  <HTTPPort>integer</HTTPPort>
                  <HTTPSPort>integer</HTTPSPort>
                  <OriginKeepaliveTimeout>integer</OriginKeepaliveTimeout>
                  <OriginProtocolPolicy>string</OriginProtocolPolicy>
                  <OriginReadTimeout>integer</OriginReadTimeout>
                  <OriginSslProtocols>
                     <Items>
                        <SslProtocol>string</SslProtocol>
                     </Items>
                     <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
                  </OriginSslProtocols>
               </CustomOriginConfig>
               <DomainName>string</DomainName>
               <Id>string</Id>
               <OriginAccessControlId>string</OriginAccessControlId>
               <OriginPath>string</OriginPath>
               <OriginShield>
                  <Enabled>boolean</Enabled>
                  <OriginShieldRegion>string</OriginShieldRegion>
               </OriginShield>
               <S3OriginConfig>
                  <OriginAccessIdentity>string</OriginAccessIdentity>
               </S3OriginConfig>
            </Origin>
         </Items>
         <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
      </Origins>
      <PriceClass>string</PriceClass>
      <Restrictions>
         <GeoRestriction>
            <Items>
               <Location>string</Location>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            <RestrictionType>string</RestrictionType>
         </GeoRestriction>
      </Restrictions>
      <Staging>boolean</Staging>
      <ViewerCertificate>
         <ACMCertificateArn>string</ACMCertificateArn>
         <Certificate>string</Certificate>
         <CertificateSource>string</CertificateSource>
         <CloudFrontDefaultCertificate>boolean</CloudFrontDefaultCertificate>
         <IAMCertificateId>string</IAMCertificateId>
         <MinimumProtocolVersion>string</MinimumProtocolVersion>
         <SSLSupportMethod>string</SSLSupportMethod>
      </ViewerCertificate>
      <WebACLId>string</WebACLId>
   </DistributionConfig>
   <DomainName>string</DomainName>
   <Id>string</Id>
   <InProgressInvalidationBatches>integer</InProgressInvalidationBatches>
   <LastModifiedTime>timestamp</LastModifiedTime>
   <Status>string</Status>
</Distribution>

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in XML format by the service.

Distribution

Root level tag for the Distribution parameters.

Required: Yes

ActiveTrustedKeyGroups

This field contains a list of key groups and the public keys in each key group that CloudFront can use to verify the signatures of signed URLs or signed cookies.

Type: ActiveTrustedKeyGroups object

ActiveTrustedSigners
Important

We recommend using TrustedKeyGroups instead of TrustedSigners.

This field contains a list of AWS account IDs and the active CloudFront key pairs in each account that CloudFront can use to verify the signatures of signed URLs or signed cookies.

Type: ActiveTrustedSigners object

AliasICPRecordals

AWS services in China customers must file for an Internet Content Provider (ICP) recordal if they want to serve content publicly on an alternate domain name, also known as a CNAME, that they've added to CloudFront. AliasICPRecordal provides the ICP recordal status for CNAMEs associated with distributions.

For more information about ICP recordals, see Signup, Accounts, and Credentials in Getting Started with AWS services in China.

Type: Array of AliasICPRecordal objects

ARN

The distribution's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

DistributionConfig

The distribution's configuration.

Type: DistributionConfig object

DomainName

The distribution's CloudFront domain name. For example: d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net.

Type: String

Id

The distribution's identifier. For example: E1U5RQF7T870K0.

Type: String

InProgressInvalidationBatches

The number of invalidation batches currently in progress.

Type: Integer

LastModifiedTime

The date and time when the distribution was last modified.

Type: Timestamp

Status

The distribution's status. When the status is Deployed, the distribution's information is fully propagated to all CloudFront edge locations.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDenied

Access denied.

HTTP Status Code: 403

CNAMEAlreadyExists

The CNAME specified is already defined for CloudFront.

HTTP Status Code: 409

DistributionAlreadyExists

The caller reference you attempted to create the distribution with is associated with another distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 409

IllegalFieldLevelEncryptionConfigAssociationWithCacheBehavior

The specified configuration for field-level encryption can't be associated with the specified cache behavior.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InconsistentQuantities

The value of Quantity and the size of Items don't match.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArgument

An argument is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidDefaultRootObject

The default root object file name is too big or contains an invalid character.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidErrorCode

An invalid error code was specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidForwardCookies

Your request contains forward cookies option which doesn't match with the expectation for the whitelisted list of cookie names. Either list of cookie names has been specified when not allowed or list of cookie names is missing when expected.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidFunctionAssociation

A CloudFront function association is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidGeoRestrictionParameter

The specified geo restriction parameter is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidHeadersForS3Origin

The headers specified are not valid for an Amazon S3 origin.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidIfMatchVersion

The If-Match version is missing or not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidLambdaFunctionAssociation

The specified Lambda@Edge function association is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidLocationCode

The location code specified is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidMinimumProtocolVersion

The minimum protocol version specified is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidOrigin

The Amazon S3 origin server specified does not refer to a valid Amazon S3 bucket.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidOriginAccessControl

The origin access control is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidOriginAccessIdentity

The origin access identity is not valid or doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidOriginKeepaliveTimeout

The keep alive timeout specified for the origin is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidOriginReadTimeout

The read timeout specified for the origin is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidProtocolSettings

You cannot specify SSLv3 as the minimum protocol version if you only want to support only clients that support Server Name Indication (SNI).

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidQueryStringParameters

The query string parameters specified are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRelativePath

The relative path is too big, is not URL-encoded, or does not begin with a slash (/).

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRequiredProtocol

This operation requires the HTTPS protocol. Ensure that you specify the HTTPS protocol in your request, or omit the RequiredProtocols element from your distribution configuration.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidResponseCode

A response code is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidTTLOrder

The TTL order specified is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidViewerCertificate

A viewer certificate specified is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidWebACLId

A web ACL ID specified is not valid. To specify a web ACL created using the latest version of AWS WAF, use the ACL ARN, for example arn:aws:wafv2:us-east-1:123456789012:global/webacl/ExampleWebACL/473e64fd-f30b-4765-81a0-62ad96dd167a. To specify a web ACL created using AWS WAF Classic, use the ACL ID, for example 473e64fd-f30b-4765-81a0-62ad96dd167a.

HTTP Status Code: 400

MissingBody

This operation requires a body. Ensure that the body is present and the Content-Type header is set.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NoSuchCachePolicy

The cache policy does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchDistribution

The specified distribution does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchFieldLevelEncryptionConfig

The specified configuration for field-level encryption doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchOrigin

No origin exists with the specified Origin Id.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchOriginRequestPolicy

The origin request policy does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchRealtimeLogConfig

The real-time log configuration does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

NoSuchResponseHeadersPolicy

The response headers policy does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

PreconditionFailed

The precondition in one or more of the request fields evaluated to false.

HTTP Status Code: 412

RealtimeLogConfigOwnerMismatch

The specified real-time log configuration belongs to a different AWS account.

HTTP Status Code: 401

TooManyCacheBehaviors

You cannot create more cache behaviors for the distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyCertificates

You cannot create anymore custom SSL/TLS certificates.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyCookieNamesInWhiteList

Your request contains more cookie names in the whitelist than are allowed per cache behavior.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionCNAMEs

Your request contains more CNAMEs than are allowed per distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributions

Processing your request would cause you to exceed the maximum number of distributions allowed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToCachePolicy

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified cache policy. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToFieldLevelEncryptionConfig

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified configuration for field-level encryption.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToKeyGroup

The number of distributions that reference this key group is more than the maximum allowed. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToOriginAccessControl

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified origin access control.

For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToOriginRequestPolicy

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified origin request policy. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsAssociatedToResponseHeadersPolicy

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified response headers policy.

For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsWithFunctionAssociations

You have reached the maximum number of distributions that are associated with a CloudFront function. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsWithLambdaAssociations

Processing your request would cause the maximum number of distributions with Lambda@Edge function associations per owner to be exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyDistributionsWithSingleFunctionARN

The maximum number of distributions have been associated with the specified Lambda@Edge function.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyFunctionAssociations

You have reached the maximum number of CloudFront function associations for this distribution. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyHeadersInForwardedValues

Your request contains too many headers in forwarded values.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyKeyGroupsAssociatedToDistribution

The number of key groups referenced by this distribution is more than the maximum allowed. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyLambdaFunctionAssociations

Your request contains more Lambda@Edge function associations than are allowed per distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyOriginCustomHeaders

Your request contains too many origin custom headers.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyOriginGroupsPerDistribution

Processing your request would cause you to exceed the maximum number of origin groups allowed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyOrigins

You cannot create more origins for the distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyQueryStringParameters

Your request contains too many query string parameters.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTrustedSigners

Your request contains more trusted signers than are allowed per distribution.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TrustedKeyGroupDoesNotExist

The specified key group does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TrustedSignerDoesNotExist

One or more of your trusted signers don't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: