Create a lambada to fetch the token from Cognito, Return as { “id”: “idToken” }. We can go into postman and create a “Test” method and use the following:

Sometimes things happen ( serverless node in my case ) where a generated api gateway name is not the desired one that you want in the end. Renaming them is relatively straightforward ( yet nerve wracking ).

Bugs happen all the time, Many times bugs are presented in a production environment where the same code seemed to work flawlessly in a test or staging environment. Over the years of writing code that blows up in a production environment, I’ve come to realize the increasing need of a blue-green deployment strategy. The benefit of doing a Blue-Green deployment is that you can cycle servers between any environment ( swapping based on our url schema ) with the same code but build for different environments.