CreatePublicKey - Amazon CloudFront

CreatePublicKey

Uploads a public key to CloudFront that you can use with signed URLs and signed cookies, or with field-level encryption.

Request Syntax

POST /2020-05-31/public-key HTTP/1.1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <PublicKeyConfig xmlns="http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2020-05-31/"> <CallerReference>string</CallerReference> <Comment>string</Comment> <EncodedKey>string</EncodedKey> <Name>string</Name> </PublicKeyConfig>

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in XML format.

PublicKeyConfig

Root level tag for the PublicKeyConfig parameters.

Required: Yes

CallerReference

A string included in the request to help make sure that the request can't be replayed.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Comment

A comment to describe the public key. The comment cannot be longer than 128 characters.

Type: String

Required: No

EncodedKey

The public key that you can use with signed URLs and signed cookies, or with field-level encryption.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Name

A name to help identify the public key.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 201 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <PublicKey> <CreatedTime>timestamp</CreatedTime> <Id>string</Id> <PublicKeyConfig> <CallerReference>string</CallerReference> <Comment>string</Comment> <EncodedKey>string</EncodedKey> <Name>string</Name> </PublicKeyConfig> </PublicKey>

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.

PublicKey

Root level tag for the PublicKey parameters.

Required: Yes

CreatedTime

The date and time when the public key was uploaded.

Type: Timestamp

Id

The identifier of the public key.

Type: String

PublicKeyConfig

Configuration information about a public key that you can use with signed URLs and signed cookies, or with field-level encryption.

Type: PublicKeyConfig object

Errors

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

InvalidArgument

An argument is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PublicKeyAlreadyExists

The specified public key already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 409

TooManyPublicKeys

The maximum number of public keys for field-level encryption have been created. To create a new public key, delete one of the existing keys.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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