In part 1 of this series I showed you how to setup an AWS Lambda with the AWS console. Now, let's protect that Lambda with API Gateway and a JWT Authorizer , specifically with Keycloak . The JWT Authorizer in API Gateway expects a standard JWT to be passed on every call to the API. This leverages the standard Authorization header to pass the token. A curl call to the API might look like: curl https://2ozg2rh13f.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/default/api-gw-dad-joke -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" where the token is a JWT that looks something like: eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCIgOiAiSldUIiwia2lkIiA6ICJq ... In the next article I'll show you where to get this token. But first, let's put an API in front of the Lambda. Note: once again I am showing you the "ClickOps" method of setting up your environment by doing everything though the AWS console. This is not a best prac...
