Learn AWS Serverless Computing

Building and testing your bot

In this section, we are going to create a simple bot that uses Lambda as a code hook integration. We'll continue with our airline customer service desk example and make a bot that can book a flight:

1. Jump into the Lex console, making sure you're in a supported region. If you haven't created a chatbot before, you will be presented with a welcome page.
2. Click Get Started and select Custom bot.
3. We're going to create the airline example we've been using throughout this section. Create the bot using the values shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a new bot

When you click Create, a service-linked IAM role is ...