AWS Security Blog

Category: Amazon API Gateway

Figure 10: Architecture diagram after deployment

Authorize API Gateway APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions with Amazon Cognito or bring your own identity provider

August 9, 2024: This post has been updated to reflect a new feature in Amazon Verified Permissions that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) compliant identity providers as identity source Externalizing authorization logic for application APIs can yield multiple benefits for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. These benefits can include freeing up development teams to focus on […]

Building fine-grained authorization using Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, and IAM

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. June 5, […]

Use ACM Private CA for Amazon API Gateway Mutual TLS

October 5, 2021: In the section “Retrieving your ACM Private CA root CA certificate public key,” in step 4, we’ve updated the formatting of the commands to indicate placeholder text. May 14, 2021: In the section “Retrieving your ACM Private CA root CA certificate public key,” in step 1, we updated the command to include […]

Use AWS Lambda authorizers with a third-party identity provider to secure Amazon API Gateway REST APIs

February 24, 2021: We updated this post to fix a typo in the IAM policy in the “Building a Lambda authorizer” section. Note: This post focuses on Amazon API Gateway REST APIs used with OAuth 2.0 and custom AWS Lambda authorizers. API Gateway also offers HTTP APIs, which provide native OAuth 2.0 features. For more […]