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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

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...