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Set Up API Keys Using the API Gateway REST API

To set up API keys, do the following:

• Configure API methods to require an API key.

• Create or import an API key for the API in a region.

Before setting up API keys, you must have created an API and deployed it to a stage.

For the REST API calls to create and deploy an API, see restapi:create and deployment:create, respectively.

Require an API Key on a Method

To require an API key on a method, do one of the following:

• Call method:put to create a method. Set apiKeyRequired to true in the request payload.

• Call method:update to set apiKeyRequired to true.

Create or Import API Keys

To create or import an API key, do one of the following:

• Call apikey:create to create an API key.

• Call apikey:import to import an API key from a file. For the file format, see API Gateway API Key File Format.

With the API key created, you can now proceed to Create, Configure, and Test Usage Plans Using the API Gateway CLI and REST API.