https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2020-05-31/distribution/{PrimaryDistributionId}/copy<p>Creates a staging distribution using the configuration of the provided primary distribution. A staging distribution is a copy of an existing distribution (called the primary distribution) that you can use in a continuous deployment workflow.</p> <p>After you create a staging distribution, you can use <code>UpdateDistribution</code> to modify the staging distribution's configuration. Then you can use <code>CreateContinuousDeploymentPolicy</code> to incrementally move traffic to the staging distribution.</p>
The identifier of the primary distribution whose configuration you are copying. To get a distribution ID, use <code>ListDistributions</code>.
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2020-05-31/distribution/{PrimaryDistributionId}/copy' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2020-05-31/distribution/{PrimaryDistributionId}/copy<p>Creates a staging distribution using the configuration of the provided primary distribution. A staging distribution is a copy of an existing distribution (called the primary distribution) that you can use in a continuous deployment workflow.</p> <p>After you create a staging distribution, you can use <code>UpdateDistribution</code> to modify the staging distribution's configuration. Then you can use <code>CreateContinuousDeploymentPolicy</code> to incrementally move traffic to the staging distribution.</p>
The identifier of the primary distribution whose configuration you are copying. To get a distribution ID, use <code>ListDistributions</code>.
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2020-05-31/distribution/{PrimaryDistributionId}/copy' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}