diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 402eb2003f4..175752ef338 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ All of the packages in the `apollo-server` repo are released with the same versi
 - express, koa: remove next after playground [#1436](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1436)
 - Hapi: Pass the response toolkit to the context function. [#1407](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1407)
 - update apollo-engine-reporting-protobuf to non-beta [#1429](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1429)
+- Lambda: Look in event.path first when picking endpoint for GraphQL Playground [#1527](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/pull/1527)
 
 ### rc.10
 
diff --git a/packages/apollo-server-lambda/src/ApolloServer.ts b/packages/apollo-server-lambda/src/ApolloServer.ts
index 94a58c059dc..1949a43f25f 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-server-lambda/src/ApolloServer.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-server-lambda/src/ApolloServer.ts
@@ -119,8 +119,13 @@ export class ApolloServer extends ApolloServerBase {
       if (this.playgroundOptions && event.httpMethod === 'GET') {
         const acceptHeader = event.headers['Accept'] || event.headers['accept'];
         if (acceptHeader && acceptHeader.includes('text/html')) {
+          const path =
+            event.path ||
+            (event.requestContext && event.requestContext.path) ||
+            '/';
+
           const playgroundRenderPageOptions: PlaygroundRenderPageOptions = {
-            endpoint: event.requestContext.path,
+            endpoint: path,
             ...this.playgroundOptions,
           };