How to delete a distribution in Cloudfront

Question

Hi Team,

I have some distributions in Cloudfront. I want to delete one distribution from the command line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Before you can delete a distribution, you must disable it. To disable a distribution, use the update-distribution command. After you disable, you can delete the distribution by using the below command.

$ aws cloudfront delete-distribution --id EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE --if-match E2QWRUHEXAMPLE