Question

Which types of custom authorizers are supported by API Gateway ?

Answer 1

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Today Amazon API Gateway is launching custom request authorizers. With custom request authorizers, developers can authorize their APIs using bearer token authorization strategies, such as OAuth using an AWS Lambda function.

Answer 2

Answer:

API Gateway is an AWS service that supports the creation, publishing, and management of RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs) for exposing back-end HTTP endpoints and AWS Lambda functions.

Explanation:

API Gateway is an API management tool that sits between the collection of clients and backend services. The API gateway acts as a reverse proxy that accepts all API (Application Programming Interface) calls, aggregates the various services needed to execute them, and returns appropriate results.

 There are two types of  custom authorizers.

Tokens and Requests. The token authorizer is the simplest. Specifies the name of the header  used to authenticate the request. The value of this header is passed to the custom approver for validation. API Gateway is an AWS service that supports the creation, publishing, and management of RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs) for exposing back-end HTTP endpoints and AWS Lambda functions.

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