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Srihari Prabaharan

Author: Srihari Prabaharan

Srihari Prabaharan is a Senior Cloud Application Architect and he works with customers to architect, design, automate, and build solutions on AWS for their business needs. Srihari's passion includes filmmaking and screenwriting and he made his debut independent feature film as writer and director in 2014.

architecture for sample request parameter-based OPA Lambda authorizer that receives the identity of the caller in a combination of headers and converts them as structured context data for OPA to make a policy decision and authorize your API call

Creating a custom Lambda authorizer using Open Policy Agent

Organizations have complex infrastructure and need common tooling to make decisions about the system as a whole. In such scenarios, policy-based decision making could be implemented using Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine, which decouples policy decision-making from policy enforcement. When a web-based application needs to make a policy […]