AWS CLI create cloudfront distribution: --distribution-config - amazon-web-services

Question

Trying a cloudfront distribution using the AWS CLI, one needs an argument --distribution-config
aws cloudfront create-distribution
aws: error: argument --distribution-config is required
I assume this is a json string with the configuration for the distribution, but I cannot find any documentation about it.
Where can I find a minimal working example?

Answer 1

The following JSON worked for me. I used get-distribution-config to generate it.
{
"Comment": "example json",
"CacheBehaviors": {
"Quantity": 0
},
"Logging": {
"Bucket": null,
"Prefix": null,
"Enabled": false,
"IncludeCookies": false
},
"Origins": {
"Items": [
{
"S3OriginConfig": {
"OriginAccessIdentity": null
},
"Id": "S3-origin",
"DomainName": "example.s3.amazonaws.com"
}
],
"Quantity": 1
},
"DefaultRootObject": null,
"PriceClass": "PriceClass_All",
"Enabled": false,
"DefaultCacheBehavior": {
"TrustedSigners": {
"Enabled": false,
"Quantity": 0
},
"TargetOriginId": "S3-origin",
"ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all",
"ForwardedValues": {
"Headers": {
"Quantity": 0
},
"Cookies": {
"Forward": "none"
},
"QueryString": false
},
"SmoothStreaming": false,
"AllowedMethods": {
"Items": [
"GET",
"HEAD"
],
"Quantity": 2
},
"MinTTL": 0
},
"CallerReference": "example",
"ViewerCertificate": {
"CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": true
},
"CustomErrorResponses": {
"Quantity": 0
},
"Restrictions": {
"GeoRestriction": {
"RestrictionType": "none",
"Quantity": 0
}
},
"Aliases": {
"Quantity": 0
}
}

Answer 2

As stated in the documentation you could try to run this command:
aws cloudfront create-distribution --distribution-config file://distconfig.json
The file distconfig.json is a JSON document in the current folder that defines a CloudFront distribution:
distconfig.json
{
"CallerReference": "my-distribution-2015-09-01",
"Aliases": {
"Quantity": 0
},
"DefaultRootObject": "index.html",
"Origins": {
"Quantity": 1,
"Items": [
{
"Id": "my-origin",
"DomainName": "my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com",
"S3OriginConfig": {
"OriginAccessIdentity": ""
}
}
]
},
"DefaultCacheBehavior": {
"TargetOriginId": "my-origin",
"ForwardedValues": {
"QueryString": true,
"Cookies": {
"Forward": "none"
}
},
"TrustedSigners": {
"Enabled": false,
"Quantity": 0
},
"ViewerProtocolPolicy": "allow-all",
"MinTTL": 3600
},
"CacheBehaviors": {
"Quantity": 0
},
"Comment": "",
"Logging": {
"Enabled": false,
"IncludeCookies": true,
"Bucket": "",
"Prefix": ""
},
"PriceClass": "PriceClass_All",
"Enabled": true
}
If you follow the link I provided, you will have more information about the output this command will give you.