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Can you clear the cache on CloudFront's CDN server?

Donell Cox
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Question

 

 

Can you clear the cache on CloudFront's CDN server?

 

 

Answer

 

 

Yes. 

 

 

According to CloudFront's documentation, you can invalidate your CDN files using the CloudFront API calls. This would affect clearing the cache, so the files are updated again from the server.

 

 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Invalidation.html

 

API v1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudfront/create-invalidation.html

API v2: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/cloudfront/create-invalidation.html

 

 

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