# Create an Amazon Cognito authorizer for a REST API using CloudFormation
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You can use CloudFormation to create an Amazon Cognito user pool and an Amazon Cognito authorizer. The example CloudFormation template does the following: 
+ Create an Amazon Cognito user pool. The client must first sign the user in to the user pool and obtain an [identity or access token](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/amazon-cognito-user-pools-using-tokens-with-identity-providers.html). If you're using access tokens to authorize API method calls, be sure to configure the app integration with the user pool to set up the custom scopes that you want on a given resource server.
+ Creates an API Gateway API with a `GET` method.
+ Creates an Amazon Cognito authorizer that uses the `Authorization` header as the token source.

```
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Resources:
  UserPool:
    Type: AWS::Cognito::UserPool
    Properties:
      AccountRecoverySetting:
        RecoveryMechanisms:
          - Name: verified_phone_number
            Priority: 1
          - Name: verified_email
            Priority: 2
      AdminCreateUserConfig:
        AllowAdminCreateUserOnly: true
      EmailVerificationMessage: The verification code to your new account is {####}
      EmailVerificationSubject: Verify your new account
      SmsVerificationMessage: The verification code to your new account is {####}
      VerificationMessageTemplate:
        DefaultEmailOption: CONFIRM_WITH_CODE
        EmailMessage: The verification code to your new account is {####}
        EmailSubject: Verify your new account
        SmsMessage: The verification code to your new account is {####}
    UpdateReplacePolicy: Retain
    DeletionPolicy: Retain
  CogAuthorizer:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Authorizer
    Properties:
      Name: CognitoAuthorizer
      RestApiId:
        Ref: Api
      Type: COGNITO_USER_POOLS
      IdentitySource: method.request.header.Authorization
      ProviderARNs:
        - Fn::GetAtt:
            - UserPool
            - Arn
  Api:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi
    Properties:
      Name: MyCogAuthApi
  ApiDeployment:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Deployment
    Properties:
      RestApiId:
        Ref: Api
    DependsOn:
      - CogAuthorizer
      - ApiGET
  ApiDeploymentStageprod:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Stage
    Properties:
      RestApiId:
        Ref: Api
      DeploymentId:
        Ref: ApiDeployment
      StageName: prod
  ApiGET:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Method
    Properties:
      HttpMethod: GET
      ResourceId:
        Fn::GetAtt:
          - Api
          - RootResourceId
      RestApiId:
        Ref: Api
      AuthorizationType: COGNITO_USER_POOLS
      AuthorizerId:
        Ref: CogAuthorizer
      Integration:
        IntegrationHttpMethod: GET
        Type: HTTP_PROXY
        Uri: http://petstore-demo-endpoint.execute-api.com/petstore/pets
Outputs:
  ApiEndpoint:
    Value:
      Fn::Join:
        - ""
        - - https://
          - Ref: Api
          - .execute-api.
          - Ref: AWS::Region
          - "."
          - Ref: AWS::URLSuffix
          - /
          - Ref: ApiDeploymentStageprod
          - /
```