Sign a CloudFront URL with NodeJS AWS SDK https://medium.com/roam-and-wander/using-cloudfront-signed-urls-to-serve-private-s3-content-e7c63ee271db

signed-cloudfront-url.js

// load the AWS SDK
const AWS = require('aws-sdk')

// load CloudFront key pair from environment variables
// Important: when storing your CloudFront private key as an environment variable string, 
// you'll need to replace all line breaks with \n, like this:
// CF_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIE...1Ar\nwLW...2eL\nFOu...k2E\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"
const cloudfrontAccessKeyId = process.env.CF_ACCESS_KEY_ID
const cloudFrontPrivateKey = process.env.CF_PRIVATE_KEY
const signer = new AWS.CloudFront.Signer(cloudfrontAccessKeyId, cloudFrontPrivateKey)

// 2 days as milliseconds to use for link expiration
const twoDays = 2*24*60*60*1000

// sign a CloudFront URL that expires 2 days from now
const signedUrl = signer.getSignedUrl({
  url: 'https://248hf0w8hs.cloudfront.net/secret-image.jpg',
  expires: Math.floor((Date.now() + twoDays)/1000), // Unix UTC timestamp for now + 2 days
})

// signedUrl is now a signed CloudFront URL:
// https://248hf0w8hs.cloudfront.net/secret-image.jpg?Expires=1531165045&Key-Pair-Id=HDIWEUY39S87XHCJDJUQODJ20AL&Signature=0SGI2...K2JHID__

this saved us thank you!. we're are on aws-sdk v3 and no issues to report, the code is returning a signedUrl successfully. I might add, I also had to wrap in double quotes, in single quotes the function returns an error. Very fussy indeed.