AWS API Gateway: programmatically generating API keys

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I'm working on a project using Amazon API Gateway and wonder if there's a way through the AWS SDK or over REST to programmatically create API keys for monitoring requests:

AWS API Gateway FAQs

API Key docs

It seems like they want you to use a custom authenticator for security purposes - over depending on an AWS API key. Using an application user for IAM I was thinking my application user would make the actual requests with the AWS IAM key and secret key then add on a user's particular API key for request counts / rate limiting.

Does this approach make sense?

Thanks.

It appears there's a manualw ay to do this: docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/… But i haven't found a way to automate this. — roguequery
– roguequery, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 18:21
Based on this discussion: stackoverflow.com/questions/32313393/… maybe this just isn't supported yet? — roguequery
– roguequery, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 18:22

roguequery · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-26 04:15:27Z

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Creating an API key is buried in the AWS SDK for API Gateway

Upon last reading I believe stages are limited to 10,000 API Keys / account so this won't scale at infimum.

create_api_key for API Gateway

answered Jul 26, 2016 at 4:15

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JHH Over a year ago

By default, 500 API keys per account/region.

LeonardoX · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-09 13:17:52Z

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AFAIK, you have 2 ways to create AWS Gateway API keys programmatically via:

AWS CLi
Api Gateway Actions using AWS SDK

sample code:

//Create api key
var apiGatewayClient = new AmazonAPIGatewayClient();
await apiGatewayClient.CreateApiKeyAsync(new CreateApiKeyRequest() { Name = apiKey }));

//Add api key to usage plan
var p = new CreateUsagePlanKeyRequest() { UsagePlanId = usagePlanId, KeyId = apiGatewayClient.Id, KeyType = "API_KEY" };
await apiGatewayClient.CreateUsagePlanKeyAsync(p);

edited Jan 9, 2023 at 13:17

answered Dec 19, 2022 at 17:10

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