Adding a domain fails with "Domain is already in use on another CloudFront distribution"
What you are seeing
Adding a domain fails with "Domain is already in use on another CloudFront distribution".
#Why it happens
A domain can only be attached to one CloudFront distribution across all of AWS, and an old distribution of yours still claims it.
#What to do
Find the distribution in every AWS account you own, remove the alias or delete the distribution, wait about 5 minutes, then press Retry.
#Related
Deleted a site and now I cannot re-add its custom domain to the replacement — it says "Domain is alr
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Apex domain (example.com) will not work
The only DNS guidance given is "point your domain to CloudFront with a CNAME record", and
Domain problems
The rest of this family.
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