Using V2 CloudFront Logs via CloudFormation
CloudFront supports two logging modes: v2 logging and legacy logging. Naturally, you’d expect to use the newer v2 logging—but if you’re provisioning CloudFront with CloudFormation, it’s easy to end up with the legacy setup by accident. If you use the Logging property in your AWS::CloudFront::Distribution, CloudFormation will default to legacy logging, writing directly to S3. There’s currently no way to switch this to v2 via the Logging property in CloudFormation. To enable v2 logging, you have to take a different approach: ...