Chapter 2 ● Creating your Amazon Account
Chapter 2 • Creating your Amazon Account 2.1 Introduction There are three ways to create an Alexa Skill. 1. Using Alexa-Hosted Skill – this is most probably the easiest way. You don’t need an AWS account – you can just get started. 2. Using AWS Lambda and the Developer Console. 3. Using an IDE (such as Visual Studio code) and ASK CLI (Alexa Skills Kit and Command Line Interpreter). In any case, you need an Amazon developer account. We’ll use an Alexa-Hosted skill where we can. It provides most of the requirements we need including extra storage (S3) and a database (DynamoDB). We’ll study these in a later chapter.
2.2 Create your Amazon account You don’t need an AWS account for Alexa-Hosted skills, but you will need one for smart home skills. Go to the Amazon Developer website at: https://developer.amazon.com/
Click ‘Developer Console’ and create your Amazon Developer account.
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