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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

You're reading from   Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa Build and deploy serverless applications on AWS using Zappa

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837613
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
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Preface 1. Amazon Web Services for Serverless FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Zappa 3. Building a Flask Application with Zappa 4. Building a Flask-Based REST API with Zappa 5. Building a Django Application with Zappa 6. Building a Django REST API with Zappa 7. Building a Falcon Application with Zappa 8. Custom Domain with SSL 9. Asynchronous Task Execution on AWS Lambda 10. Advanced Zappa Settings 11. Securing Serverless Applications with Zappa 12. Zappa with Docker 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling secure endpoints on API Gateway


Securing API access is an essential criterion. You can limit and restrict the access for your customers who are going to consume the API. Amazon API Gateway does support several mechanisms to secure, limit, and restrict API uses. This will help to maintain the API usages as per your customer base. The following are three types of implementations that are supported by API Gateway:

  • API key
  • IAM policy
  • API Gateway Lambda authorizer

Let's look at each implementation in more detail.

 

 

Enabling the API Key

As we described in Chapter 1Amazon Web Services for Serverless, regarding Zappa's deployment workflow, where Zappa configures the API Gateway to invoke the AWS Lambda with a proxy pass mechanism, this creates an API on the API Gateway interface. Each API supports various stages. In our case, we have created a dev stage while deploying the application. Therefore, the following screenshot shows the state of the API Gateway console:

API Gateway supports API keys...

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