deleting a responding site via cloudfront

Question

Good morning,

I urgently need to delete one of our websites which from what I understand was done using Amazon-S3-Bucket and releasing it on "Cloudfront" of our AWS platform.
Unfortunately it was done by an ex-colleague who didn't explain anything to us and no one knows how to do it.
The address to block is the following: "https://d1hxj3e6rxi2vo.cloudfront.net/"
I managed to find the bucket in question in our AWS, and also the distribution on cloudfront.
I tried redistributing by changing the routing page, I tried deactivating the bucket and even then deleting it, but nothing the site still responds!
I also tried to create a new bucket to put a "landing page" at that address that responds to requests by routing them to another site of ours (also doing the distribution), but I can't see that it works!
Can someone please help me "deactivate" this site?

Thanks and best regards

Accepted Answer

Thank to HeikoMR, the site was locally cached in my browsers!

Answer

hi and thanks for your answer. Yesterday i tried to destroy both the distribution and also the bucket but our site still respond now! i dont't undestand how it is possible! Now i try to invalidate all chache objects (with "/*") in the new distribution that i've created to replace all cloudfront website with landing-page... but nothing changed!

Answer

Hi AWS User,

I guess it is still cached in cloudfront. 
So what you can do is clearing the cache by creating an invalidation request inside the cloudfront-distribution:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Invalidation.html

If you don't need the cloudfront distribution at all (meaning that if you only had that one single bucket/page listed on this distribution, you could also destroy the distribution.

Sincerely
Heiko

deleting a responding site via cloudfront

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