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Use GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig with a CLI

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Use GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig with a CLI - Amazon CloudFront

The following code examples show how to use GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig.

CLI
AWS CLI

To get a CloudFront origin access identity configuration

The following example gets metadata about the CloudFront origin access identity (OAI) with the ID E74FTE3AEXAMPLE, including its ETag. The OAI ID is returned in the output of the create-cloud-front-origin-access-identity and list-cloud-front-origin-access-identities commands.

aws cloudfront get-cloud-front-origin-access-identity-config --id E74FTE3AEXAMPLE

Output:

{
    "ETag": "E2QWRUHEXAMPLE",
    "CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig": {
        "CallerReference": "cli-example",
        "Comment": "Example OAI"
    }
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example returns configuration information about a single Amazon CloudFront origin access identity, specified by the -Id parameter. Errors occur if no -Id parameter is specified..

Get-CFCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig -Id E3XXXXXXXXXXRT

Output:

      CallerReference                                             Comment
      ---------------                                             -------
      mycallerreference: 2/1/2011 1:16:32 PM                      Caller reference: 2/1/2011 1:16:32 PM
anchoranchor
AWS CLI

To get a CloudFront origin access identity configuration

The following example gets metadata about the CloudFront origin access identity (OAI) with the ID E74FTE3AEXAMPLE, including its ETag. The OAI ID is returned in the output of the create-cloud-front-origin-access-identity and list-cloud-front-origin-access-identities commands.

aws cloudfront get-cloud-front-origin-access-identity-config --id E74FTE3AEXAMPLE

Output:

{
    "ETag": "E2QWRUHEXAMPLE",
    "CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig": {
        "CallerReference": "cli-example",
        "Comment": "Example OAI"
    }
}

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using CloudFront with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

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