Or to put it another way:
Should I consider my list API routes public?
Reason for asking is if I setup a web hook for a payment service - will this be available to anyone to post to?
I guess the thing to do would be restrict to their origin.
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I am newbie to AWS and looking to resolve the API Gateway issue. We had a frontend web application where if users perform any activity by clicking a Personal Details link then request will hit the AWS API Gateway "A" and trigger lambda-A. We created AWS code pipeline and deployed application using Cloud Formation Stack which creates new API Gateway-B and Lambda-B. After the deployment it was intended that when ever user hits the Personal Details it should hit API Gateway-B and triggering the Lambda-B instead it was hitting old AWS API Gateway "A" and triggering lambda-A. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Raghu
You need to update the base path mapping of your backend domain to API Gateway B.
Or you have to edit the backend url in frontend code to new api gateway url
Custom domains with API Gateway
You need to change Lambda function in API Gateway. Please check this article which have screenshots.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-api-gateway-stage-variables-to-manage-lambda-functions/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/services-apigateway.html
Also I want to recommend you to use Serverless for your project.
This was due to the User request from Website navigating to data power (third party vendor for security). In data power it was configured to old API Gateway, so we changed it to new API Gateway.
I have a React app which calls API gateway, which in turn triggers my Lambda functions. Now for saving cost purpose due to the potentially let’s say, tens of millions of requests to the API gateway, I did some research and are looking at to potentially use ALB to invoke my Lambdas rather than API GW. My API GW is simply a Lambda-Proxy integration.
My question is with API GW I can add API keys and custom authorizers etc, but for ALB, how do I add a bit of authentication at the ALB layer, say only allow the invocation of my Lambda functions only from the client that I trust? Note my client is a static React app with no server behind it! I don’t need anything too fancy but just want to reject requests other than my trusted request origins. Inside Lambda to cover browser I will just add CORS to response header. But at ALB level, how do I achieve what I required?
Looking forward to getting some shed of lights here!
Thanks
Is it an option using AWS Cognito or CloudFront? We did that with an Enterprise application which uses OIDC (OAuth 2.0). It does implement just Authentication for now.
Give a look in these links:
https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/built-in-authentication-in-alb/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/listener-authenticate-users.html
Hello guys I have written an AWS lambda function which should be open to all. I have configured my cloud front also which will be accessible to users. How can I make the API gateway to take requests only from the Cloud front or whitelist the cloud front domain. Something like Allowed_hosts.
I should not be able to respond to any calls from the postman or any such tools. API gateway should only respond to calls from cloudfront.
How can I do this ?? I dont want to have the authentication system setup like Congnito or IAM.
Is there any better method to do this ??
I have looked at CORS and Access Control Allow Origin. But these are browser based.
I need a method which will accept calls only from cloud front or my s3 bucket. Not from localhost or postman etc.
Thanks In advance.
Step 1:
Setup API Keys with API Gateway.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-setup-api-key-with-restapi.html
Step 2:
Add API Keys to CloudFront Origin with a custom header.
If anyone calls the API Gateway without a valid key, it will get refused.
To setup authentication on CloudFront you can sign the urls.
Hope it helps.
I do not think that there is a way to restrict calls to your API GW endpoints... However, you can use the so-called API Keys. When you make a request to the specific API GW endpoint, you need to provide a header x-api-key and the corresponding API Key as a value. As long as you provide the header with correct value, you will be able to access the functionality behind your endpoint. If you do not provide a correct API Key, you will simply get 403 Forbidden.
Please take a look here and if you have any questions, read through the documentation. It's quite clear.
If there is anything unclear in my answer, I am open to help!
Cheers.
I have a website distributed with CloudFront, with S3 as an origin. I've written a Lambda function that takes a contact form submission and sends the email along with SES. The Lambda test out just fine : )
But, I'm clueless when it comes to routing POST requests from CloudFront to that backend Lambda function. How do I do this?
Update: Okay, I've got the API Gateway test triggering the Lambda function just fine, but I can't seem to call it from CloudFront (or rather using a curl command to my domain set up with CloudFront).
Do I need to list my domain as a custom domain in API Gateway?
If I list the path /api/* in my CloudFront Behaviors, do I have to mirror that in my API Gateway set up? So, does my API Gateway need to start with /api before I add specific resources?
Update 2 I think I needed to leave or remove the /dev off the end of the API Gateway URL. dev being my stage.
Update 3 Okay, it feels one step away now. I've got everything hooked up. The test request hits cloudfront, it forwards to api gateway, gateway calls lambda (at this point I'm shaking my head at how complicated we've made all this), and lambda sends back success or failure to api gateway, and we're peachy. Except, I get MethodNotAllowed when I do it from curl or the browser. Do I need to add an IAM role to CloudFront to access API Gateway?
Update 4 Still not working. And now, I'm back to getting my usual 404 error page that my Default Origin (S3). Seems like serverless is a fading dream.
Update 5 Trying a different approach, recommended here: https://serverfault.com/a/839368 The idea is to use API Gateway's Custom Domain name features with a subdomain like api.example.com and then use a Route53 Alias record to direct subdomain traffic to API Gateway. This could work. Then CloudFront would handle traffic to example.com and www.example.com, and API Gateway would get requests to api.example.com. Now the challenging bit is that in HTML forms the action attribute will have to go to a different subdomain. Let's see what kinds of errors and crazy behavior we get : (
First you would setup API Gateway in front of your Lambda function so it can be called via a POST request. It sounds like you may already have that part done?
Then if you want the POST to go through CloudFront you would add a second origin in CloudFront that points to your API Gateway.
This is all possible, but its tricky to configure. To help I created an open-source boilerplate app that correctly sets up:
A static site with CloudFront and S3
An API with API Gateway and Lambda
CORS between the static site and API
Optional OAuth 2.0 and JWT cookie for the static site
See this static JavaScript app for an example of a static site POSTing to an API backed by Lambda.
Depends on what you're using as your backend (which language, framework, etc.), there are different ways, but 'em all about one thing: Invoke
Kind-of the most generic call - HTTP is right there, the API call examples by language are referenced at the end of the doc.
I am fairly new to AWS Lambda but sure can see the benefits of it and stumbled upon the superb framework Serverless to help me built solutions on Lambda.
I started out building solutions using AWS API Gateway but really need "internal" VPC API's and not public Internet facing API's like API GW creates.
I found that Servless indeed can expose a HTTP endpoint but I can't figure out how this is done and how the URL is created.
When I deploy the Lambda from Serverless it gives me the URL, e.g.:
https://uxezd6ry8z.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dev/ping
I would like to be able to find (or create) this same http listener for already existing Lambdas so my question is how is the URL created and where is teh actual HTTP listener deployed?
You might be looking for the invoke url,
1. go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/apigateway
2. select api link (which you have deployed on aws lambda).
3. select stages in left side panel and
see the invoke url.
Adding a http listener can be done by going to your lambda function, selecting the 'triggers' tab and 'add trigger', finally selecting API Gateway - but as others mentioned this does create a public facing url.
Duh, I was in the wrong AWS logon previously so the API GW was not showing any matching Serverless API and that was why I couldn't understand how they did it...
Once I logged into the AWS account that hosts the Serverless structure I can see the API GW GET API's for the Serverless HTTP listener.