Use Amazon Cognito as an OIDC / OAuth Identity provider for API Gateway HTTP APIs JWT Authorizers

Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs supports a new type of authorizer called JWT Authorizer. You deliver JWT tokens to API Gateway and it verifies them with the configured issuer. It’s fairly straight forward to configure.

1. Identify the source for the incoming token that has your identity info. This is almost always the Authorizationheader.
2. Configure your Identity Provider’s Issuer URL.This is the domain name and path to the well known metadata…