AWS CDK CloudFront Origins: Add an origin to an existing distribution

[reply2srij]

Describe the feature

Need to be able to add a new Origin/behavior to an existing CloudFront distribution.

Use Case

My project has a use case where our distribution has multiple origins. We developed several *Stack.java classes which will create our infrastructure.
Now let's say in Stack1.java class, we have created a CloudFront Distribution with a couple of origins. In a future release, we need to be able to add a new origin to this existing CloudFront distribution. We would like to do this in a different class - Stack2.java. Both Stack1.java and Stack2.java will be in the same project under the same package structure. But, I do not see a way to retrieve an existing distribution and add a new origin to it. Please let me know if its possible to do this or can this be a feature request?

Proposed Solution

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Other Information

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Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.18

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Java 11, AWS CDK

[pahud]

Hi,

Is your cloudfront distribution created with CDK? If yes, you should be able to define multiple behaviors and origins in a distribution in CDK.

check this out: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/tree/main/packages/%40aws-cdk/aws-cloudfront#multiple-behaviors--origins

I am moving this to discussion as this seems to be a general guidance request.

[reply2srij]

Yes our CloudFront distribution is getting created by CDK in one Java class.. but we want to add origin in a different Java class. I do understand that while creating distribution, we are able to add multiple origins. But, how about once distribution is already created, are we able to add origins to it but retrieving an existing distribution?