Update a distribution - Amazon CloudFront
Update a distribution in the console

Update a distribution

In the CloudFront console, you can see the CloudFront distributions that are associated with your AWS account, view the settings for a distribution, and update most settings. Be aware that settings changes that you make won't take effect until the distribution has propagated to the AWS edge locations.

Update a distribution in the console

The following procedures show you how to update a CloudFront distribution in the console.

Multi-tenant
To update a multi-tenant distribution

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/v4/home.

  2. Search for and choose the ID of the multi-tenant distribution.

  3. Choose the tab for the settings you want to update.

  4. Make the updates, and then, to save your changes, choose Save changes. For more information about the settings you can update, see CloudFront multi-tenant distribution reference.

You can also update a distribution by using the CloudFront API:

  • To update a distribution, see UpdateDistribution in the Amazon CloudFront API Reference.

Important

When you update your distribution, be aware that a number of additional fields are required that are not required when you first create a distribution. To help make sure that all of the required fields are included when you use the CloudFront API to update a distribution, follow the steps described in UpdateDistribution in the Amazon CloudFront API Reference.

To change the multi-tenant distribution for a distribution tenant, you update the distribution tenant. You also update the distribution tenant to update its domain, certificate, customizations, or parameter values. For more details about updating the distribution tenant certificate, see Add a domain and certificate (distribution tenant).

To update a distribution tenant

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/v4/home.

  2. Under SaaS, choose Distribution tenants.

  3. Search for the distribution tenant. Use the dropdown menu in the search bar to filter by domain, name, distribution ID, certificate ID, connection group ID, or web ACL ID.

  4. Choose the distribution tenant's name.

  5. To update general Details, choose Edit, make the updates, and choose Update distribution tenant.

  6. Choose the appropriate tab for any other settings to update, make your updates, and save them. For more information about the distribution tenant settings you can customize, see Distribution tenant customizations.

Standard
To update a standard distribution

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/v4/home.

  2. Select the ID of a distribution. The list includes all of the distributions associated with the AWS account that you used to sign in to the CloudFront console.

  3. To update general settings, choose Edit. Otherwise, choose the tab for the settings that you want to update.

  4. Make the updates, and then choose Save changes. For information about the fields, see the following topics:

  5. If you want to delete an origin in your distribution, do the following:

    1. Choose Behaviors, and then make sure you have moved any default cache behaviors associated with the origin to another origin.

    2. Choose Origins, and then select an origin.

    3. Choose Delete.

You can also update a distribution by using the CloudFront API:

  • To update a distribution, see UpdateDistribution in the Amazon CloudFront API Reference.

Important

When you update your distribution, be aware that a number of additional fields are required that are not required to create a distribution. To help make sure that all of the required fields are included when you use the CloudFront API to update a distribution, follow the steps described in UpdateDistribution in the Amazon CloudFront API Reference.

When you save changes to your distribution configuration, CloudFront starts to propagate the changes to all edge locations. Successive configuration changes propagate in their respective order. Until your configuration is updated in an edge location, CloudFront continues to serve your content from that location based on the previous configuration. After your configuration is updated in an edge location, CloudFront immediately starts to serve your content from that location based on the new configuration.

Your changes don't propagate to every edge location at the same time. While CloudFront is propagating your changes, we can't determine whether a given edge location is serving your content based on the previous configuration or the new configuration.

Note

In rare cases when a host or network link is disrupted, some distribution tenant traffic might be served using older configurations for a brief period until your changes make their way through the network.

To see when your changes are propagated, view your distribution Details in the console. The Last modified field changes from Deploying to a date and time when deployment is complete.