For this project, testing locally is meant to be only a helper, a cheap way of exercising function of the app needed in production (in AWS) as well. A constant "reality-check" is desirable on what solutions are possible and/or optimal on AWS to avoid "digression" with the local env/features.
A close match to the nginx/oauth-proxy solution doesn't seem to be available on AWS.
API Gateway
1.2. jwt-authorizer is not good enough even as Authorization code with PKCE
1.3 Lambda authorizer is to expensive in terms of effort
Application Load Balancer
2.1. OIDC authentication seems to require verifying the loadbalancer's signature on the claims &ndash seems too much effort to integrate a custom environment
For this project, testing locally is meant to be only a helper, a cheap way of exercising function of the app needed in production (in AWS) as well. A constant "reality-check" is desirable on what solutions are possible and/or optimal on AWS to avoid "digression" with the local env/features.