Issue creating AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy

[LarsFronius]

Name of the resource

Other

Resource Name

AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy

Issue Description

Hi, I am seeing Internal error reported from downstream service during operation 'AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy'. or Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy" (RequestToken: f28bc45a-39b5-aabf-e46a-2c8e5e464249, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest), depending on the provided configuration.

The issue sounds very familiar to the ones at https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverage-roadmap/issues/571

Whether I provide a pretty complete response header policy or a completely empty one as can be seen here, either result in CREATE_FAILED errors.

 "ResponseHeaders84BC52D6": {
   "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy",
   "Properties": {
    "ResponseHeadersPolicyConfig": {
     "Name": "testHeaders"
    }
   },
   "Metadata": {
    "aws:cdk:path": "test/gateway-setup/ResponseHeaders/Resource"
   }
  },

I am in eu-central-1 and the IAM role used for deployment has AdministratorAccess (set up via CDK pipelines) in case that makes any difference. Any other resources deploy without errors (e.g. the Distribution itself).

Expected Behavior

I expect for a ResponseHeadersPolicy to be created when I provide a name for it.

Observed Behavior

It errors with an internal error that doesn't give a hint about what I did wrong.

Test Cases

Create a cloudformation stack in eu-central-1 like

{
	"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
	"Resources": {
		"ResponseHeaders": {
			"Type": "AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy",
			"Properties": {
				"ResponseHeadersPolicyConfig": {
					"Name": "testHeaders"
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Other Details

No response

[jplock]

Have you tried creating the policy in us-east-1?

[LeandroSoares]

I have the same issue creating in sa-east-1:

Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy" (RequestToken: 9788bcb9-0cc9-57a4-d152-442549949243, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest)

[LeandroSoares]

I have the same issue creating in sa-east-1:

Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::ResponseHeadersPolicy" (RequestToken: 9788bcb9-0cc9-57a4-d152-442549949243, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest)

I found the cause of my error:

"CustomHeadersConfig": { "Items": [ { "Header": "Cross-Origin Resource Policy", << was without '-' "Override": true, "Value": "same-origin" } ] }

[blimmer]

You might also be running into this CDK issue where the auto-generated name is too long: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/21524, especially if you're using CDK pipelines. The CloudFormation error isn't very useful. In the UI, it tells you the name is too long.

[scottiemc7]

I ran into this when the policy name contained invalid characters. This restriction is not mentioned in the documentation for the Name parameter, but if you try to create a policy in the console you can see:

The parameter [NAME] contains characters other than alphanumericals, dashes, and underscores. 🙄

[rehanvdm]

I solved it by looking at CloudTrail, it shows the actual API error message which is much more useful.

[cchanche]

For my part, I was specifying a wrong value for CorsConfig.AccessControlAllowMethods :

AccessControlAllowMethods:
  Items:
    - *

should have been :

AccessControlAllowMethods:
  Items:
    - ALL

CloudTrail logs were not showing any further details, and I ended up A/B testing my desired config from a demo cloudformation template.

I guess the actual issue is simply there is no verbosity no matter the encountered errors.

[yibb-y]

For AWS CDK it is:

 corsBehavior: 
  {
    accessControlAllowMethods: ['ALL'],
  },

instead of

 corsBehavior: 
  {
    accessControlAllowMethods: ['*'],
  },

[JonWallsten]

Thank you, @yibb-y and @cchanche! Even the documentation is wrong:

A list of origins (domain names) that CloudFront can use as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP response header. You can specify ['*'] to allow all origins.

[ShivamJoker]

Cloudtrail shows you the error message which you need to fix this issue:

"errorMessage": "1 validation error detected: Value '[null]' at 
'responseHeadersPolicyConfig.corsConfig.accessControlAllowMethods.items' failed to satisfy constraint:
Member must satisfy constraint: [Member must satisfy enum value set: [HEAD, POST, ALL, PATCH, DELETE, PUT, GET, OPTIONS]]",

As suggested above use [ALL] pretty confusing but yeah.