# GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity
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Get the information about an origin access identity.

## Request Syntax
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```
GET /2020-05-31/origin-access-identity/cloudfront/Id HTTP/1.1
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request uses the following URI parameters.

 ** [Id](#API_GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity-request-uri-Id"></a>
The identity's ID.  
Required: Yes

## Request Body
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The request does not have a request body.

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity>
   <CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig>
      <CallerReference>string</CallerReference>
      <Comment>string</Comment>
   </CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig>
   <Id>string</Id>
   <S3CanonicalUserId>string</S3CanonicalUserId>
</CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity>
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in XML format by the service.

 ** [CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity](#API_GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity-response-CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity"></a>
Root level tag for the CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity parameters.  
Required: Yes

 ** [CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig](#API_GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity-response-CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig"></a>
The current configuration information for the identity.  
Type: [CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig](API_CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentityConfig.md) object

 ** [Id](#API_GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity-response-Id"></a>
The ID for the origin access identity, for example, `E74FTE3AJFJ256A`.   
Type: String

 ** [S3CanonicalUserId](#API_GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity-response-S3CanonicalUserId"></a>
The Amazon S3 canonical user ID for the origin access identity, used when giving the origin access identity read permission to an object in Amazon S3.  
Type: String

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** AccessDenied **   
Access denied.  
HTTP Status Code: 403

 ** NoSuchCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity **   
The specified origin access identity does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/GetCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity)