aws-cloudfront needs fromDistributionAttributes support

There is no way to use a existing cloud front distribution in aws cdk.

Use Case

Reusing existing components is useful in several use cases. one of them is mentioned in the stack overflow question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58286081/re-use-existing-cloudfront-distribution-with-aws-cdk/59561890#59561890

Proposed Solution

the solution should be as it is on other resources ex:

static fromUserPoolAttributes(scope, id, attrs) for cognito UserPools.

Other

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

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This is a 🚀 Feature Request

[shellscape]

@njlaw I’d love to see some follow up on the comment by @maraisr. We have roughly 30 individual stacks in different repos, deployed by different teams, which falls into the scenario mentioned by @maraisr - our APIs are created outside of the scope of the distribution.

[njlynch]

@HannesT117 - Unfortunately not. Generally, imported resources can’t be themselves modified; they can have other dependent resources added to them (e.g., new listener for a load balancer) and can be referenced by other constructs (e.g., use the distribution for a Route53 target, reference ARNs or identifiers in policies). The distribution and all of its properties – including the origins and behaviors – are all part of a single entity and so can’t be modified on import.