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 ...

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