Amazon CloudFront Enables API Access for Flat-Rate Pricing Plans to Streamline Management

CloudFront introduced programmatic subscription and management of flat-rate pricing plans via API and infrastructure-as-code tools.

By Elena Parker · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-09-03 · 1 min read

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Amazon CloudFront enhanced its flat-rate pricing plans by allowing customers to manage subscriptions using AWS CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API. This automation eliminates previous manual console steps, simplifying integration into automated workflows and infrastructure management.

Flat-rate plans offer a single monthly price covering content delivery, security services, logging, and edge compute without usage overage charges. The API supports creating, upgrading, downgrading, and cancelling plans, including optional two-phase activation for billing approval, improving customer control and deployment agility.

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