AWS Config Rule: API Gateway Cache Enabled and Encrypted

API_GW_CACHE_ENABLED_AND_ENCRYPTED

Fernando Honig

Last Update 6 months ago

Description: Checks that all methods in Amazon API Gateway stages have cache enabled and cache encrypted. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if any method in Amazon API Gateway stage is not configured to cache or the cache is not encrypted.


Trigger type: Configuration changes


AWS Region: All supported AWS regions except Canada West (Calgary) Region


How to Resolve Manually 

To resolve this manually, in the API Gateway console, you configure caching in the Settings tab of a named Stage Editor.


To configure API caching for a given stage:

  1. Go to the API Gateway console.
  2. Choose the API.
  3. Choose Stages.
  4. In the Stages list for the API, choose the stage.
  5. Choose the Settings tab.
  6. Choose Enable API cache.
  7. Choose Encrypt cache data.
  8. Wait for the cache creation to complete.

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