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APIs Build an Alexa Skill Building an Alexa Skill Uploading an Alexa Skill to AWS Lambda

Alexander Sanchez
Alexander Sanchez
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Posted by Alexander Sanchez
Alexander Sanchez
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Can anyone point me to a diagram and logical architecture of an actual skill in action, end-to-end?

Would be super useful to see a skill diagrammatically flowed out in a logical architecture format, ie avs to skill to lambda to my backend, etc.

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Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Alexander,

Check out the graphic on here:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/overviews/understanding-custom-skills

Customer speaks to Alexa (AVS) where the custom interaction model kicks in and send the request off to the skill service which can be hosted on Lambda or elsewhere.