Event object is empty in api gateway call to lambda - amazon-web-services

Question

Now I have my lambda just echoing the event object:
def lambda_handler(event, context):
pprint(event)
I have been using the event object in the code to get the path like this event['path']
When I run sam local to start up the api gateway locally like this, when I hit the locally running api gateway the lambda dumps an event object like i would expect and I can read the path from it:
sam local start-api
But When I deploy the SAM template to aws and test it in the api gateway console "event" is empty.
Why is event empty on aws and not locally? Do I need to do something to pass the full event? This is my template:
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: >
sam-app
Sample SAM Template for sam-app
# More info about Globals: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/docs/globals.rst
Globals:
Function:
Timeout: 3
Resources:
lambdafunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function # More info about Function Resource: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/versions/2016-10-31.md#awsserverlessfunction
Properties:
CodeUri: hello_world/build/
Handler: app.lambda_handler
Runtime: python2.7
Environment: # More info about Env Vars: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/versions/2016-10-31.md#environment-object
Variables:
PARAM1: VALUE
Events:
# More info about API Event Source: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/versions/2016-10-31.md#api
testMethod:
Type: Api
Properties:
RestApiId: !Ref ApiGatewayApi
Path: /testMethod
Method: GET
ApiGatewayApi:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Api
Properties:
StageName: Prod
DefinitionBody:
swagger: "2.0"
info:
version: "2018-09-12T06:21:35Z"
title: mytest
schemes:
- "https"
paths:
/testMethod:
x-amazon-apigateway-any-method:
produces:
- "application/json"
responses:
'200':
description: "200 response"
schema:
$ref: "#/definitions/Empty"
security:
- sigv4: []
x-amazon-apigateway-integration:
uri:
Fn::Sub: arn:aws:apigateway:${AWS::Region}:lambda:path/2015-03-31/functions/arn:aws:lambda:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:function:${lambdafunction}/invocations
responses:
default:
statusCode: "200"
passthroughBehavior: "when_no_match"
httpMethod: "POST"
contentHandling: "CONVERT_TO_TEXT"
type: "aws"
securityDefinitions:
sigv4:
type: "apiKey"
name: "Authorization"
in: "header"
x-amazon-apigateway-authtype: "awsSigv4"
definitions:
Empty:
type: "object"
title: "Empty Schema"