Missing Authentication Token while accessing API Gateway?

Question

I am trying to call a Lambda Function through AWS API Gateway. When I mention Authentication type NONE it works fine but API become public and anyone with url can access my

Answer 1

Make sure you are clicking on the specific Resource first in the Stages tree, as that will populate a URL with the full path to the resource (rather than just the root path):

For other causes, see http://www.awslessons.com/2017/aws-api-gateway-missing-authentication-token/