How to increase AWS cloudfront invalidation max retries

Question

From time to time when trying to create invalidation with AWS CloudFront (using a CI pipelines) with the following command:

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id "${cloudfront_id}" --paths "/*"

I get the following error message:

An error occurred (ServiceUnavailable) when calling the CreateInvalidation operation (reached max retries: 2): CloudFront encountered an internal error. Please try again.

And a re-run of the CI pipeline usually works.

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I am trying to figure out how to set a max retries that is bigger than 2 (like the error message indicates) -

with the hope of it fixing it, since a re-run does work in those cases -

and\or fix it in some other way.

The docs didn't had anything related or even the error specified..

Worth mentioning that the environment I am using is GitHub Actions on ubuntu-latest (which is currently at 22.04) with aws cli pre-installed

Answer 1

You can set max_attempts in the AWS config, default location is: ~/.aws/config

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-retries.html#cli-usage-retries-configure