Inbuilt authentication mechanism - API gateway

Question

API gateway has in-built functionality to perform authorization.

But the examples provided by awslabs have lambda hooked to API gateway, where lambda is authorizing as p

Answer 1

Solution 1 :

Create and Use Usage Plans with API Keys : In this method you can use API Keys to authenticate a user. follow this link : API Keys method

Solution 2 :

You can AWS Amazon Cognito service for authentication. It is same as OKTA service. Follow this link : Amazon Cognito