Found the answer. Basically i added a plugin and modified the resource as shown below to do the trick.
service: serverless-middleware-getnews
provider:
name: aws
runtime: nodejs4.3
role: arn:aws:iam::2914332239557:role/serverless-lambda-role
deploymentBucket: serverless-bucket
stage: ${opt:stage, self:custom.defaultStage}
profile: ${self:custom.profiles.${self:provider.stage}}
region: us-east-1
environment: ${file(env-vars/${self:custom.stage}.yml)}
memorySize: 1024
timeout: 300
custom:
stage: "${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}"
defaultStage: stage
profiles:
dev: serverless-middleware-news-dev
stage: serverless-middleware-news-stage
prod: serverless-middleware-news-prod
plugins:
- serverless-plugin-stage-variables
package:
individually: true
exclude:
- .gitignore
- .jshintrc
- .npmignore
- .env
- env-vars/**
- context.json
- event-data/**
- data/**
- deploy.env
- Gruntfile.js
- policy-document.txt
- README.md
functions:
feed:
handler: functions/news.handler
name: serverless-news-${self:provider.stage}
events:
- http:
path: news
method: get
cors: true
resources:
Resources:
ApiGatewayStage:
Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Stage
Properties:
MethodSettings:
- DataTraceEnabled: true
HttpMethod: "*"
LoggingLevel: INFO
ResourcePath: "/*"
MetricsEnabled: true