This question is similar, but the only answer there is to get the list of all distributions and filter them locally, which is not what I am looking for.
This page hints that it might be possible to filter by tag ("You can search and filter your resources based on the tags you add"), but I just cannot figure out how!
To add to Balu's great answer, if you have specified a default region when setting up aws-cli and this region is not us-east-1 then it won't work (you'll see an empty array of ResourceTagMappingList).
Be sure to add --region us-east-1 at the end of the command like so:
aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources --tag-filters Key=tagName,Values=tagValue --resource-type-filters 'cloudfront' --tags-per-page 100 --region us-east-1
I can only think of one way, since aws cloudfront doesn't directly support get distributions by tag.
we can use resourcegroupstaggingapi cli , to get ResourceARNs of all cloudfront and using jq and sed extract DistributionIds
Ex: Tag ApplicationID=APP1111
aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources --tag-filters Key=ApplicationID,Values=APP1111 --resource-type-filters 'cloudfront' --tags-per-page 100 | jq -r ".ResourceTagMappingList[].ResourceARN" | sed 's:.*/::'
we can further use xargs and execute get-distribution for each Id.
aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources --tag-filters Key=ApplicationID,Values=APP1111 --resource-type-filters 'cloudfront' --tags-per-page 100 | jq -r ".ResourceTagMappingList[].ResourceARN" | sed 's:.*/::' | xargs -I {} aws cloudfront get-distribution --id {}