How to access HTTP headers for request to AWS API Gateway using Lambda?

Question

I see in the API Gateway FAQ that it is possible to access the request headers sent to the API Gateway...

If you already utilize OAuth tokens or any o

Answer 1

As per Prabhat's answer setting up with the lambda proxy integration request is the simplest way to do this, after which you can access the request headers, path parameters and query parameters via

event['pathParameters']['param1']
event["queryStringParameters"]['queryparam1']
event['requestContext']['identity']['userAgent']
event['requestContext']['identity']['sourceIP']