CognitoAuthorizer

Define a Amazon Cognito User Pool authorizer.

For more information and examples, see Control API access with your AWS SAM template.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template, use the following syntax.

YAML

  AuthorizationScopes: List
  Identity: CognitoAuthorizationIdentity
  UserPoolArn: String

Properties

AuthorizationScopes

List of authorization scopes for this authorizer.

Type: List

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is unique to AWS SAM and doesn't have an AWS CloudFormation equivalent.

Identity

This property can be used to specify an IdentitySource in an incoming request for an authorizer.

Type: CognitoAuthorizationIdentity

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is unique to AWS SAM and doesn't have an AWS CloudFormation equivalent.

UserPoolArn

Can refer to a user pool/specify a userpool arn to which you want to add this cognito authorizer

Type: String

Required: Yes

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is unique to AWS SAM and doesn't have an AWS CloudFormation equivalent.

Examples

CognitoAuth

Cognito Auth Example

YAML

Auth:
  Authorizers:
    MyCognitoAuth:
      AuthorizationScopes:
        - scope1
        - scope2
      UserPoolArn:
        Fn::GetAtt:
          - MyCognitoUserPool
          - Arn
      Identity:
        Header: MyAuthorizationHeader
        ValidationExpression: myauthvalidationexpression