The last eight chapters gave us a good insight into what Serverless architectures are and how they can be designed, developed, secured, and scaled on a mature cloud provider, such as AWS. We also saw how a third-party orchestration tool such as the Serverless Framework can be used to provision these Serverless architectures. It is obvious by now that AWS is more than just a cloud provider. It offers various services that can be used by the developer to create solutions delivering newer experiences to the end user. AWS keeps on adding new offerings to their already vast repertoire, and strives not only to better the quality of the user experience but also to enrich the developer's experience when creating them.
In this chapter, we will have a look at the following:
- AWS Cloud9
- AWS Alexa
We will also walk through the creation of a simple Alexa skill that...