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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex Create custom conversational and voice interfaces for your Amazon Echo devices and web platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993487
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Williams Sam Williams
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Preface 1. Understanding Chatbots FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with AWS and Amazon CLI 3. Creating Your First Alexa Skill 4. Connecting Your Alexa Skills to External APIs 5. Building Your First Amazon Lex Chatbot 6. Connecting a Lex Bot to DynamoDB 7. Publishing Your Chatbot to Facebook, Slack, Twilio, and HTTP 8. Improving the User Experience for Your Bots 9. Review and Continued Development 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A 1. Appendix B

Creating a Lambda

AWS Lambda functions are incredible! They’re functions that are hosted on AWS that can be triggered in many different ways. Lambda functions are serverless, which means that you don't need to run a server to use them. This makes it a lot quicker and easier to set up and use.

One of the best parts of AWS Lambdas is that you only pay for the time the Lambda function is running. Got something that only runs once an hour and only takes two seconds? You’ll only be charged for 48 seconds a day! That’s insane compared to running a 24/7 AWS EC2 server or your own private server.

Today, we’ll create a Lambda function and look at the three best ways to work with the code.

Once you’ve got your AWS account set up, there are a few ways to create a new Lambda function. We’re going to start by using the AWS Console.

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