How to clear Amazon CloudFront Cache completely?

Question

I made some changes to my origin server which now serves different data from same url.

I tried to clear my cache completely by doing the following invalidation in CF

Answer 1

You need to use /* instead of /.

Also, if you need to do this frequently, you can do it using the AWS CLI.

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id=YOUR_DISTRIBUTION_ID --paths "/*"

Edit: thanks to @speckledcarp, you need to use "/*" (with quotes) when using the CLI.