Wait for deploy

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Goal

After this page your CloudFront distribution will report status Deployed and be ready for traffic.

Prerequisites

• Distribution created with $DIST exported.

What "Deployed" means

CloudFront pushes config to every edge location on the planet. Until that finishes, some edges serve the new config and some don't. The status changes from InProgress to Deployed only when every edge has the new config.

Typical time: 5–15 minutes. First-ever distributions sometimes take longer.

Poll from the CLI

The fastest way to watch this is one CLI call in a loop:

aws cloudfront list-distributions \
  --query "DistributionList.Items[?DomainName=='$DIST'].Status" \
  --output text

Run it every minute or two. You'll see:

InProgress

…then eventually:

Deployed

If you want the shell to wait for you, a one-liner that polls every 30 seconds:

until [ "$(aws cloudfront list-distributions \
  --query "DistributionList.Items[?DomainName=='$DIST'].Status" \
  --output text)" = "Deployed" ]; do
  echo "still InProgress, sleeping 30s"
  sleep 30
done
echo "Deployed"

When this exits with Deployed, move to the next page.

What if it's stuck

If 30 minutes passes and the status is still InProgress, the most common cause is the AWS service status page reporting a CloudFront incident. Check status.aws.amazon.com and wait it out. The distribution will finish on its own — there's nothing to retry.

Next → Verify the public URL