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create_cache_policy

Operation

create_cache_policy async

create_cache_policy(input: CreateCachePolicyInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> CreateCachePolicyOutput

Creates a cache policy.

After you create a cache policy, you can attach it to one or more cache behaviors. When it's attached to a cache behavior, the cache policy determines the following:

  • The values that CloudFront includes in the cache key. These values can include HTTP headers, cookies, and URL query strings. CloudFront uses the cache key to find an object in its cache that it can return to the viewer.

  • The default, minimum, and maximum time to live (TTL) values that you want objects to stay in the CloudFront cache.

Warning: If your minimum TTL is greater than 0, CloudFront will cache content for at least the duration specified in the cache policy's minimum TTL, even if the Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, or private directives are present in the origin headers.

The headers, cookies, and query strings that are included in the cache key are also included in requests that CloudFront sends to the origin. CloudFront sends a request when it can't find an object in its cache that matches the request's cache key. If you want to send values to the origin but not include them in the cache key, use OriginRequestPolicy.

For more information about cache policies, see Controlling the cache key in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input CreateCachePolicyInput

An instance of CreateCachePolicyInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
CreateCachePolicyOutput

An instance of CreateCachePolicyOutput.

Input

CreateCachePolicyInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for CreateCachePolicyInput structure.

Attributes

cache_policy_config class-attribute instance-attribute
cache_policy_config: CachePolicyConfig | None = ...

A cache policy configuration.

Output

CreateCachePolicyOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for CreateCachePolicyOutput structure.

Attributes

cache_policy class-attribute instance-attribute
cache_policy: CachePolicy | None = ...

A cache policy.

e_tag class-attribute instance-attribute
e_tag: str | None = ...

The current version of the cache policy.

location class-attribute instance-attribute
location: str | None = ...

The fully qualified URI of the cache policy just created.

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.