Datatalks API: Authentication
The authentication of the API is implemented via AWS_IAM. When making an API request you will have to authenticate via AWS Signature Version 4. Here is an example of an Authorization header done with AWS Signature Version 4:
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20130524/us-east-1/execute-api/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;range;x-amz-date, Signature=fe5f80f77d5fa3beca038a248ff027d0445342fe2855ddc963176630326f1024
To build the Authorization header you will need an AWS IAM account credentials - ACCESS_KEY_ID and SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. When requesting access to our API an account will be created for you by our team and the credentials will be sent to you.
Implementing authentication
There is an AWS SDK for the most popular development stacks (.NET, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, etc.). Some of the SDKs might not provide the Signature Version 4 out of the box, so you might need to implement it by yourself. Browse the articles under this section to see examples of signing requests with Signature Version 4.