Restricting access to the API's endpoints
Our Flask application has been deployed, and at this point anyone can make a request to the endpoints that have been configured on the AWS API Gateway. What we want to do is restrict the access only to requests that contain an access key.
To do that, log into our account on AWS console and on the Services menu search for and select Amazon API Gateway. Under the API on the left side menu, you will see the notifier-dev:
Great! Here we are going to define a usage plan. Click on Usage Plans and then click on the Create button, and you will see a form for creating a new usage plan. Enter the name up-blueprints, uncheck the checkboxes for Enable throttling and Enable Quota, and click the Next button.
The next step is to associate an API stage. So far we have only dev, so let's add the stage dev; click on Add API Stage button, and on the drop-down list select the notifier-dev and the stage dev. Make sure to click on the check button, the same row as the drop...
