Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateResourceServer

Creates a new OAuth2.0 resource server and defines custom scopes within it. Resource servers are associated with custom scopes and machine-to-machine (M2M) authorization. For more information, see Access control with resource servers.

Note

Amazon Cognito evaluates AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you must use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you must grant yourself the corresponding IAM permission in a policy.

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Request Syntax


{
   "Identifier": "string",
   "Name": "string",
   "Scopes": [ 
      { 
         "ScopeDescription": "string",
         "ScopeName": "string"
      }
   ],
   "UserPoolId": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Identifier

A unique resource server identifier for the resource server. The identifier can be an API friendly name like solar-system-data. You can also set an API URL like https://solar-system-data-api.example.com as your identifier.

Amazon Cognito represents scopes in the access token in the format $resource-server-identifier/$scope. Longer scope-identifier strings increase the size of your access tokens.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [\x21\x23-\x5B\x5D-\x7E]+

Required: Yes

Name

A friendly name for the resource server.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [\w\s+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Scopes

A list of custom scopes. Each scope is a key-value map with the keys ScopeName and ScopeDescription. The name of a custom scope is a combination of ScopeName and the resource server Name in this request, for example MyResourceServerName/MyScopeName.

Type: Array of ResourceServerScopeType objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 100 items.

Required: No

UserPoolId

The ID of the user pool where you want to create a resource server.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 55.

Pattern: [\w-]+_[0-9a-zA-Z]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "ResourceServer": { 
      "Identifier": "string",
      "Name": "string",
      "Scopes": [ 
         { 
            "ScopeDescription": "string",
            "ScopeName": "string"
         }
      ],
      "UserPoolId": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ResourceServer

The details of the new resource server.

Type: ResourceServerType object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalErrorException

This exception is thrown when Amazon Cognito encounters an internal error.

message: The message returned when Amazon Cognito throws an internal error exception.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service encounters an invalid parameter.

message: The message returned when the Amazon Cognito service throws an invalid parameter exception.
reasonCode: The reason code of the exception.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

This exception is thrown when a user exceeds the limit for a requested AWS resource.

message: The message returned when Amazon Cognito throws a limit exceeded exception.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

message: The message returned when the Amazon Cognito service returns a not authorized exception.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service can't find the requested resource.

message: The message returned when the Amazon Cognito service returns a resource not found exception.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyRequestsException

This exception is thrown when the user has made too many requests for a given operation.

message: The message returned when the Amazon Cognito service returns a too many requests exception.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example request creates a resource server for the API at myapi.example.com with the scopes myapi.example.com/international.read and myapi.example.com/domestic.read.

Sample Request


POST HTTP/1.1
Host: cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Date: 20230613T200059Z
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
X-Amz-Target: AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.CreateResourceServer
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
{
   "Identifier": "myapi.example.com",
   "Name": "Example API with custom access control scopes",
   "Scopes": [
      {
         "ScopeDescription": "International customers",
         "ScopeName": "international.read"
      },
      {
         "ScopeDescription": "Domestic customers",
         "ScopeName": "domestic.read"
      }
   ],
   "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_EXAMPLE"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:00:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
x-amzn-requestid: a1b2c3d4-e5f6-a1b2-c3d4-EXAMPLE11111
Connection: keep-alive
{
	"ResourceServer": {
		"Identifier": "myapi.example.com",
		"Name": "Example API with custom access control scopes",
		"Scopes": [
			{
				"ScopeDescription": "International customers",
				"ScopeName": "international.read"
			},
			{
				"ScopeDescription": "Domestic customers",
				"ScopeName": "domestic.read"
			}
		],
		"UserPoolId": "us-west-2_EXAMPLE"
	}
}