Your account must be verified before you can add new CloudFront resources

running into same issue right now, very frustrating

EDIT:
So here's how to solve it:

1. Navigate to:
   Support / New case / Service limit increase

2. Limit type:

• CloudFront Distributions

3. In Requests select:
   Limit: Web Distributions per Account
   New limit value: <TYPE_YOUR_NEW_VALUE_HERE>

MY CASE:

In my case, I had 2 distributions, wanted to create 3rd, but coudn't.
So I have put as <TYPE_YOUR_NEW_VALUE_HERE> a number 10.

Now, everything works! :)
Took about an hour to resolve.

Edited by: penge on Sep 27, 2019 8:21 AM

Running to the same issue. I followed the error instruction and opened a case with AWS. Waiting to hear back. Web Distributions per Account is already set to 200 in my account

I faced the same issue. We were moving our stack to 2 sub AWS accounts (dev & prod) created with AWS Organization. I wasn't able to create the distribution in the dev account. I created a ticket as recommended in the other answers but 23 hours later (and counting... with the Basic support plan), the ticket is still unassigned. As far as I know, you don't have to verify a sub account. Login in with the sub account root user did not help. Setting up a payment method on the sub account did not help either. Then I realized I was able to create a cloudfront distribution in the prod account, although both accounts were created at the same time with the same process.

My solution was to simply create a new (dev) account and I will terminate the one causing problem.

Note that we were able to deploy other AWS services without issue, so I can't see a logical explanation for this issue.

When I contacted AWS Support about this issue with CloudFront, they informed me that my account needs to establish a longer and more consistent usage pattern with existing services before they can approve requests for new CloudFront resources. It's quite strange and a bit weird that we can't use the services that directly match our business scenarios. Instead, they're asking us to gradually increase activity on other services to enable the ones we need.