CognitoAuthorizer - Amazon Serverless Application Model
SyntaxPropertiesExamples
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CognitoAuthorizer

Define a Amazon Cognito User Pool authorizer.

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

Syntax

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

Properties

AuthorizationScopes

List of authorization scopes for this authorizer.

Type: List

Required: No

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

Identity

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

Type: CognitoAuthorizationIdentity

Required: No

Amazon CloudFormation compatibility: This property is unique to Amazon SAM and doesn't have an Amazon 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

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

Examples

CognitoAuth

Cognito Auth Example

YAML

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