Building next generation chatbots with Lambda and Lex

Chatbots are all the craze right now, with practically each cloud provider dishing out its chatbot framework for end users and developers to build conversational interfaces with voice- and text-based applications, which brings us to the introduction of Amazon Lex--a powerful and scalable chatbot framework built using Amazon's intelligent personal assistant named Alexa.

Lex essentially provides you with a readymade framework complete with all the necessary integration capabilities to kick start your bot creation process without having to learn or have expertise in with Lex! All you need to do is specify the basic conversational flow using the Lex management console and let Lex take care of the rest by provisioning the required infrastructure and services as well as adjusting responses to your conversations. This enables you to build, test, and publish chatbots at lighting pace on various mobile, web applications, and even other chat platforms...