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Create a Lambda function for the skill

Create a Lambda function for the skill - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Create a Lambda function for the skill

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- [Instructor] Now we are going to create a lambda function for our skill handler. Lambda functions are pretty neat in that they allow you to run code in the Amazon Cloud without provisioning servers. You can run Java, Python, C#, Ruby, or Node.js programs, for example. Since our skill handler is written in Node.js, if we want to run this in the Amazon Cloud, we can simply configure a lambda function that will execute our handler when our skill is invoked. In this way, we do not have to set up a Node.js production server, expose it to the internet, and go through all the hassles of provisioning a server for our handler. Lambda functions makes it very easy for us. Log in to your AWS account in a browser, and you should be presented with the AWS management console. Here, we'll be creating our lambda function. So at the top, in the search box, you can type in lambda. And it does a filtering for you and you can select…

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