name : create-invalidation.rst **To create an invalidation for a CloudFront distribution** The following ``create-invalidation`` example creates an invalidation for the specified files in the specified CloudFront distribution:: aws cloudfront create-invalidation \ --distribution-id EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE \ --paths "/example-path/example-file.jpg" "/example-path/example-file2.png" Output:: { "Location": "https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2019-03-26/distribution/EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE/invalidation/I1JLWSDAP8FU89", "Invalidation": { "Id": "I1JLWSDAP8FU89", "Status": "InProgress", "CreateTime": "2019-12-05T18:24:51.407Z", "InvalidationBatch": { "Paths": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "/example-path/example-file2.png", "/example-path/example-file.jpg" ] }, "CallerReference": "cli-1575570291-670203" } } } In the previous example, the AWS CLI automatically generated a random ``CallerReference``. To specify your own ``CallerReference``, or to avoid passing the invalidation parameters as command line arguments, you can use a JSON file. The following example creates an invalidation for two files, by providing the invalidation parameters in a JSON file named ``inv-batch.json``:: aws cloudfront create-invalidation \ --distribution-id EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE \ --invalidation-batch file://inv-batch.json Contents of ``inv-batch.json``:: { "Paths": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "/example-path/example-file.jpg", "/example-path/example-file2.png" ] }, "CallerReference": "cli-example" } Output:: { "Location": "https://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2019-03-26/distribution/EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE/invalidation/I2J0I21PCUYOIK", "Invalidation": { "Id": "I2J0I21PCUYOIK", "Status": "InProgress", "CreateTime": "2019-12-05T18:40:49.413Z", "InvalidationBatch": { "Paths": { "Quantity": 2, "Items": [ "/example-path/example-file.jpg", "/example-path/example-file2.png" ] }, "CallerReference": "cli-example" } } }