cloudfront: How to migrate CloudFrontWebDistribution to the new Distribution class

❓ General Issue

Please consider the following code:

new cloudfront.CloudFrontWebDistribution(this, 'CFDistribution', {
    // ...
});

I converted this into the new Distribution class.

new cloudfront.Distribution(this, 'CFDistribution', {
    // ...
});

When I deployed this new code I got the following error:

One or more of the CNAMEs you provided are already associated with a different resource. (Service: AmazonCloudFront; Status Code: 409; Error Code: CNAMEAlreadyExists;

This is because the deployment tried to create a new CloudFront distribution instead of reusing the old one.

The Question

How could I make CDK reuse the old Cloudfront distribution? Would an override of the LogicalID help here? If yes then how can it be done?

[hanazuki]

FWIW, the following change works for me.

-    const distribution = new cloudfront.CloudFrontWebDistribution(this, 'Distribution', {
-      // ...
-    });
+    const distribution = new cloudfront.Distribution(this, 'Distribution', {
+      // ...
+    });

+    (distribution.node.defaultChild as cloudfront.CfnDistribution).overrideLogicalId('DistributionCFDistributionXXXXXXXX');

where the logicalId comes from my existing stack. Check cdk diff to make sure the distribution is reused.

[caevv]

I can’t see that being scalable or possible when you have hundreds of environments being deployed.