Life is too short not to test your API served from AWS with Postman

How to get your AWS provisioned API that requires Cognito authentication and authorization to play nice with Postman

Boris Lipchin
Nov 3 · 7 min read

The situation:
I have an API provisioned by a serverless framework, that is authenticated and authorized by some complex weave of API Gateway, and Cognito.
The problem:
I want a tool that allows me to easily exercise this API, and also serves as explicit documentation for the interface
Stack:
AWS serverless, lambdas, API…

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