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AWS CloudFormation CloudFront Skill

Guides Claude in authoring production-ready CloudFormation templates for CloudFront CDN distributions.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 349⑂ 41AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 10, 2026

What it does

  • Provides an 8-step workflow for building CloudFront distributions in CloudFormation YAML.
  • Covers multi-origin setups (S3 with OAC, ALB, API Gateway, Lambda@Edge, VPC origins) and path-based CacheBehaviors.
  • Includes cache/origin-request policies, response header policies (HSTS, XSS, CSP), WAFv2 integration, CloudFront Functions, S3 access logging, and Outputs with cross-stack exports.
  • Documents real constraints: ACM certs must live in us-east-1, 25 origins and 25 cache behaviors per distribution, up to 30-minute deployments, no drift detection.

Who it's for

  • DevOps and platform engineers managing AWS infrastructure as code.
  • Web developers shipping static sites or SPAs on S3 + CloudFront.
  • Backend teams serving APIs and static assets from a single domain.

Examples

  1. "Create a CloudFront template for an S3 static site using OAC" → minimal template with bucket, OriginAccessControl, and default cache behavior.
  2. "Route /api/* to my ALB and /static/* to S3" → multi-origin distribution with per-path cache policies and TTLs.
  3. "Add HSTS/frame-options security headers plus WAF, then lint it" → ResponseHeadersPolicy and WebACL added, validated with validate-template and cfn-lint.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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git clone https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit.git /tmp/developer-kit && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/developer-kit/plugins/developer-kit-aws/skills/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-cloudfront ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal in the folder where you keep code.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r developer-kit/plugins/developer-kit-aws/skills/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-cloudfront ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm the bundled references/ folder came along.
  6. Optional: install tooling with pip install cfn-lint and configure credentials via aws configure.
  7. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "Write a CloudFormation template for a CloudFront distribution".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT