deploying-custom-domain-rest-api

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: api-gateway, aws, custom-domain, rest-api, route53.

What it does

Deploys a Regional REST API with a custom domain name, a Lambda backend function, and a request-based Lambda authorizer using AWS CLI. Covers ACM certificate provisioning, API Gateway REST API creation, Lambda function deployment, request authorizer setup, custom domain configuration, base path mapping, and Route 53 DNS record creation. Trigger keywords: custom domain, REST API, Lambda, Route 53, API Gateway, regional endpoint, request authorizer, base path mapping.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill deploying-custom-domain-rest-api

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/deploying-custom-domain-rest-api ~/.claude/skills/deploying-custom-domain-rest-api

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/deploying-custom-domain-rest-api/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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