Hands-On Serverless Computing

Alexa trigger

Amazon Alexa is a smart voice assistant for Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, speakers such as Sonos, smart thermostats such as EcoBee, and many other devices from companies that are integrating Alexa.

For this integration to work, you need to create an Alexa application by using the Alexa Skills kit, which provides interaction with your own services for Alexa Skills through AWS Lambda functions. You can find more information about the Alexa Skills kit at https://developer.amazon.com/docs/ask-overviews/build-skills-with-the-alexa-skills-kit.html.

Here is a screenshot of configuration with the AWS Lambda console, where you can provide the Alexa application ID: