CreateCachePolicy - Amazon CloudFront
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CreateCachePolicy

Creates a cache policy.

After you create a cache policy, you can attach it to one or more cache behaviors. When it's attached to a cache behavior, the cache policy determines the following:

  • The values that CloudFront includes in the cache key. These values can include HTTP headers, cookies, and URL query strings. CloudFront uses the cache key to find an object in its cache that it can return to the viewer.

  • The default, minimum, and maximum time to live (TTL) values that you want objects to stay in the CloudFront cache.

    Important

    If your minimum TTL is greater than 0, CloudFront will cache content for at least the duration specified in the cache policy's minimum TTL, even if the Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, or private directives are present in the origin headers.

The headers, cookies, and query strings that are included in the cache key are also included in requests that CloudFront sends to the origin. CloudFront sends a request when it can't find an object in its cache that matches the request's cache key. If you want to send values to the origin but not include them in the cache key, use OriginRequestPolicy.

For more information about cache policies, see Controlling the cache key in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Request Syntax

POST /2020-05-31/cache-policy HTTP/1.1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CachePolicyConfig xmlns="http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2020-05-31/">
   <Comment>string</Comment>
   <DefaultTTL>long</DefaultTTL>
   <MaxTTL>long</MaxTTL>
   <MinTTL>long</MinTTL>
   <Name>string</Name>
   <ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin>
      <CookiesConfig>
         <CookieBehavior>string</CookieBehavior>
         <Cookies>
            <Items>
               <Name>string</Name>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </Cookies>
      </CookiesConfig>
      <EnableAcceptEncodingBrotli>boolean</EnableAcceptEncodingBrotli>
      <EnableAcceptEncodingGzip>boolean</EnableAcceptEncodingGzip>
      <HeadersConfig>
         <HeaderBehavior>string</HeaderBehavior>
         <Headers>
            <Items>
               <Name>string</Name>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </Headers>
      </HeadersConfig>
      <QueryStringsConfig>
         <QueryStringBehavior>string</QueryStringBehavior>
         <QueryStrings>
            <Items>
               <Name>string</Name>
            </Items>
            <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
         </QueryStrings>
      </QueryStringsConfig>
   </ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin>
</CachePolicyConfig>

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in XML format.

CachePolicyConfig

Root level tag for the CachePolicyConfig parameters.

Required: Yes

Comment

A comment to describe the cache policy. The comment cannot be longer than 128 characters.

Type: String

Required: No

DefaultTTL

The default amount of time, in seconds, that you want objects to stay in the CloudFront cache before CloudFront sends another request to the origin to see if the object has been updated. CloudFront uses this value as the object's time to live (TTL) only when the origin does not send Cache-Control or Expires headers with the object. For more information, see Managing How Long Content Stays in an Edge Cache (Expiration) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

The default value for this field is 86400 seconds (one day). If the value of MinTTL is more than 86400 seconds, then the default value for this field is the same as the value of MinTTL.

Type: Long

Required: No

MaxTTL

The maximum amount of time, in seconds, that objects stay in the CloudFront cache before CloudFront sends another request to the origin to see if the object has been updated. CloudFront uses this value only when the origin sends Cache-Control or Expires headers with the object. For more information, see Managing How Long Content Stays in an Edge Cache (Expiration) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

The default value for this field is 31536000 seconds (one year). If the value of MinTTL or DefaultTTL is more than 31536000 seconds, then the default value for this field is the same as the value of DefaultTTL.

Type: Long

Required: No

MinTTL

The minimum amount of time, in seconds, that you want objects to stay in the CloudFront cache before CloudFront sends another request to the origin to see if the object has been updated. For more information, see Managing How Long Content Stays in an Edge Cache (Expiration) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Type: Long

Required: Yes

Name

A unique name to identify the cache policy.

Type: String

Required: Yes

ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin

The HTTP headers, cookies, and URL query strings to include in the cache key. The values included in the cache key are also included in requests that CloudFront sends to the origin.

Type: ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin object

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 201
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CachePolicy>
   <CachePolicyConfig>
      <Comment>string</Comment>
      <DefaultTTL>long</DefaultTTL>
      <MaxTTL>long</MaxTTL>
      <MinTTL>long</MinTTL>
      <Name>string</Name>
      <ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin>
         <CookiesConfig>
            <CookieBehavior>string</CookieBehavior>
            <Cookies>
               <Items>
                  <Name>string</Name>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </Cookies>
         </CookiesConfig>
         <EnableAcceptEncodingBrotli>boolean</EnableAcceptEncodingBrotli>
         <EnableAcceptEncodingGzip>boolean</EnableAcceptEncodingGzip>
         <HeadersConfig>
            <HeaderBehavior>string</HeaderBehavior>
            <Headers>
               <Items>
                  <Name>string</Name>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </Headers>
         </HeadersConfig>
         <QueryStringsConfig>
            <QueryStringBehavior>string</QueryStringBehavior>
            <QueryStrings>
               <Items>
                  <Name>string</Name>
               </Items>
               <Quantity>integer</Quantity>
            </QueryStrings>
         </QueryStringsConfig>
      </ParametersInCacheKeyAndForwardedToOrigin>
   </CachePolicyConfig>
   <Id>string</Id>
   <LastModifiedTime>timestamp</LastModifiedTime>
</CachePolicy>

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.

CachePolicy

Root level tag for the CachePolicy parameters.

Required: Yes

CachePolicyConfig

The cache policy configuration.

Type: CachePolicyConfig object

Id

The unique identifier for the cache policy.

Type: String

LastModifiedTime

The date and time when the cache policy was last modified.

Type: Timestamp

Errors

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

AccessDenied

Access denied.

HTTP Status Code: 403

CachePolicyAlreadyExists

A cache policy with this name already exists. You must provide a unique name. To modify an existing cache policy, use UpdateCachePolicy.

HTTP Status Code: 409

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

TooManyCachePolicies

You have reached the maximum number of cache policies for this AWS account. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyCookiesInCachePolicy

The number of cookies in the cache policy exceeds the maximum. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyHeadersInCachePolicy

The number of headers in the cache policy exceeds the maximum. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyQueryStringsInCachePolicy

The number of query strings in the cache policy exceeds the maximum. For more information, see Quotas (formerly known as limits) in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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