AWS::Serverless::HttpApi - AWS Serverless Application Model
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AWS::Serverless::HttpApi

Creates an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API, which enables you to create RESTful APIs with lower latency and lower costs than REST APIs. For more information, see Working with HTTP APIs in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

We recommend that you use AWS CloudFormation hooks or IAM policies to verify that API Gateway resources have authorizers attached to them to control access to them.

For more information about using AWS CloudFormation hooks, see Registering hooks in the AWS CloudFormation CLI user guide and the apigw-enforce-authorizer GitHub repository.

For more information about using IAM policies, see Require that API routes have authorization in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

Note

When you deploy to AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM transforms your AWS SAM resources into AWS CloudFormation resources. For more information, see Generated AWS CloudFormation resources for AWS SAM.

Syntax

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

Properties

AccessLogSettings

The settings for access logging in a stage.

Type: AccessLogSettings

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the AccessLogSettings property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource.

Auth

Configures authorization for controlling access to your API Gateway HTTP API.

For more information, see Controlling access to HTTP APIs with JWT authorizers in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

Type: HttpApiAuth

Required: No

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

CorsConfiguration

Manages cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) for all your API Gateway HTTP APIs. Specify the domain to allow as a string, or specify an HttpApiCorsConfiguration object. Note that CORS requires AWS SAM to modify your OpenAPI definition, so CORS works only if the DefinitionBody property is specified.

For more information, see Configuring CORS for an HTTP API in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

Note

If CorsConfiguration is set both in an OpenAPI definition and at the property level, then AWS SAM merges both configuration sources with the properties taking precedence. If this property is set to true, then all origins are allowed.

Type: String | HttpApiCorsConfiguration

Required: No

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

DefaultRouteSettings

The default route settings for this HTTP API. These settings apply to all routes unless overridden by the RouteSettings property for certain routes.

Type: RouteSettings

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the RouteSettings property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource.

DefinitionBody

The OpenAPI definition that describes your HTTP API. If you don't specify a DefinitionUri or a DefinitionBody, AWS SAM generates a DefinitionBody for you based on your template configuration.

Type: JSON

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is similar to the Body property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource. If certain properties are provided, AWS SAM may insert content into or modify the DefinitionBody before it is passed to AWS CloudFormation. Properties include Auth and an EventSource of type HttpApi for a corresponding AWS::Serverless::Function resource.

DefinitionUri

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) URI, local file path, or location object of the the OpenAPI definition that defines the HTTP API. The Amazon S3 object that this property references must be a valid OpenAPI definition file. If you don't specify a DefinitionUri or a DefinitionBody are specified, AWS SAM generates a DefinitionBody for you based on your template configuration.

If you provide a local file path, the template must go through the workflow that includes the sam deploy or sam package command for the definition to be transformed properly.

Intrinsic functions are not supported in external OpenApi definition files that you reference with DefinitionUri. To import an OpenApi definition into the template, use the DefinitionBody property with the Include transform.

Type: String | HttpApiDefinition

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is similar to the BodyS3Location property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource. The nested Amazon S3 properties are named differently.

Description

The description of the HTTP API resource.

When you specify Description, AWS SAM will modify the HTTP API resource's OpenApi definition by setting the description field. The following scenarios will result in an error:

  • The DefinitionBody property is specified with the description field set in the Open API definition – This results in a conflict of the description field that AWS SAM won't resolve.

  • The DefinitionUri property is specified – AWS SAM won't modify an Open API definition that is retrieved from Amazon S3.

Type: String

Required: No

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

DisableExecuteApiEndpoint

Specifies whether clients can invoke your HTTP API by using the default execute-api endpoint https://{api_id}.execute-api.{region}.amazonaws.com. By default, clients can invoke your API with the default endpoint. To require that clients only use a custom domain name to invoke your API, disable the default endpoint.

To use this property, you must specify the DefinitionBody property instead of the DefinitionUri property or define x-amazon-apigateway-endpoint-configuration with disableExecuteApiEndpoint in your OpenAPI definition.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is similar to the DisableExecuteApiEndpoint property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource. It is passed directly to the disableExecuteApiEndpoint property of an x-amazon-apigateway-endpoint-configuration extension, which gets added to the Body property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource.

Domain

Configures a custom domain for this API Gateway HTTP API.

Type: HttpApiDomainConfiguration

Required: No

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

FailOnWarnings

Specifies whether to roll back the HTTP API creation (true) or not (false) when a warning is encountered. The default value is false.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the FailOnWarnings property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource.

Name

The name of the HTTP API resource.

When you specify Name, AWS SAM will modify the HTTP API resource's OpenAPI definition by setting the title field. The following scenarios will result in an error:

  • The DefinitionBody property is specified with the title field set in the Open API definition – This results in a conflict of the title field that AWS SAM won't resolve.

  • The DefinitionUri property is specified – AWS SAM won't modify an Open API definition that is retrieved from Amazon S3.

Type: String

Required: No

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

PropagateTags

Indicate whether or not to pass tags from the Tags property to your AWS::Serverless::HttpApi generated resources. Specify True to propagate tags in your generated resources.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Default: False

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

RouteSettings

The route settings, per route, for this HTTP API. For more information, see Working with routes for HTTP APIs in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

Type: RouteSettings

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the RouteSettings property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource.

StageName

The name of the API stage. If no name is specified, AWS SAM uses the $default stage from API Gateway.

Type: String

Required: No

Default: $default

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the StageName property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource.

StageVariables

A map that defines the stage variables. Variable names can have alphanumeric and underscore characters. The values must match [A-Za-z0-9-._~:/?#&=,]+.

Type: Json

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the StageVariables property of an AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource.

Tags

A map (string to string) that specifies the tags to add to this API Gateway stage. Keys can be 1 to 128 Unicode characters in length and cannot include the prefix aws:. You can use any of the following characters: the set of Unicode letters, digits, whitespace, _, ., /, =, +, and -. Values can be 1 to 256 Unicode characters in length.

Type: Map

Required: No

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

Additional notes: The Tags property requires AWS SAM to modify your OpenAPI definition, so tags are added only if the DefinitionBody property is specified—no tags are added if the DefinitionUri property is specified. AWS SAM automatically adds an httpapi:createdBy:SAM tag. Tags are also added to the AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Stage resource and the AWS::ApiGatewayV2::DomainName resource (if DomainName is specified).

Return Values

Ref

When you pass the logical ID of this resource to the intrinsic Ref function, Ref returns the API ID of the underlying AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api resource, for example, a1bcdef2gh.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Examples

Simple HttpApi

The following example shows the minimum needed to set up an HTTP API endpoint backed by an Lambda function. This example uses the default HTTP API that AWS SAM creates.

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  ApiFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      Events:
        ApiEvent:
          Type: HttpApi
      Handler: index.handler
      InlineCode: |
        def handler(event, context):
            return {'body': 'Hello World!', 'statusCode': 200}
      Runtime: python3.7
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31

HttpApi with Auth

The following example shows how to set up authorization on HTTP API endpoints.

YAML

Properties:
  FailOnWarnings: true
  Auth:
    DefaultAuthorizer: OAuth2
    Authorizers:
      OAuth2:
        AuthorizationScopes:
          - scope4
        JwtConfiguration:
          issuer: "https://www.example.com/v1/connect/oauth2"
          audience:
            - MyApi
        IdentitySource: "$request.querystring.param"

HttpApi with OpenAPI definition

The following example shows how to add an OpenAPI definition to the template.

Note that AWS SAM fills in any missing Lambda integrations for HttpApi events that reference this HTTP API. AWS SAM also also adds any missing paths that HttpApi events reference.

YAML

Properties:
  FailOnWarnings: true
  DefinitionBody:
    info:
      version: '1.0'
      title:
        Ref: AWS::StackName
    paths:
      "/":
        get:
          security:
          - OpenIdAuth:
            - scope1
            - scope2
          responses: {}
    openapi: 3.0.1
    securitySchemes:
      OpenIdAuth:
        type: openIdConnect
        x-amazon-apigateway-authorizer:
          identitySource: "$request.querystring.param"
          type: jwt
          jwtConfiguration:
            audience:
            - MyApi
            issuer: https://www.example.com/v1/connect/oidc
          openIdConnectUrl: https://www.example.com/v1/connect/oidc/.well-known/openid-configuration

HttpApi with configuration settings

The following example shows how to add HTTP API and stage configurations to the template.

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Parameters:
  StageName:
    Type: String
    Default: Prod
    
Resources:
  HttpApiFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      InlineCode: |
          def handler(event, context):
              import json
              return {
                  "statusCode": 200,
                  "body": json.dumps(event),
              }
      Handler: index.handler
      Runtime: python3.7
      Events:
        ExplicitApi: # warning: creates a public endpoint
          Type: HttpApi
          Properties:
            ApiId: !Ref HttpApi
            Method: GET
            Path: /path
            TimeoutInMillis: 15000
            PayloadFormatVersion: "2.0"
            RouteSettings:
              ThrottlingBurstLimit: 600

  HttpApi:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::HttpApi
    Properties:
      StageName: !Ref StageName
      Tags:
        Tag: Value
      AccessLogSettings:
        DestinationArn: !GetAtt AccessLogs.Arn
        Format: $context.requestId
      DefaultRouteSettings:
        ThrottlingBurstLimit: 200
      RouteSettings:
        "GET /path":
          ThrottlingBurstLimit: 500 # overridden in HttpApi Event
      StageVariables:
        StageVar: Value
      FailOnWarnings: true

  AccessLogs:
    Type: AWS::Logs::LogGroup

Outputs:
  HttpApiUrl:
    Description: URL of your API endpoint
    Value:
      Fn::Sub: 'https://${HttpApi}.execute-api.${AWS::Region}.${AWS::URLSuffix}/${StageName}/'
  HttpApiId:
    Description: Api id of HttpApi
    Value:
      Ref: HttpApi