Optimise and Secure AWS HTTP API Gateway by locking down direct access

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AWS HTTP API Gateway let’s you deploy RESTful API quickly in the most affordable way without compromising on basic security, performance, scalability and observability but unlike REST API Gateway lacks many advanced features such as WAF attachment, resource policy, API key management, caching, canary deployments, request body transformation, X-Ray tracing, etc.

AWS WAF is a vital resource to secure publicly exposed endpoints from various types of attacks and because HTTP API Gateway does not support …

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