AlexaOps - Controlling AWS using Alexa

Why? cause why not?!

Intro

This repo is an example implementation backed by a presentation. The idea is to create an Alexa skill, backed by AWS Lambda to control various operations on the AWS platform.

Usage

This skill supports the following actions:

• "How many development servers are running?"
  • There are 3 Development servers, 1 server is offline
• "Turn on all development servers"
  • I have started 1 development server
• "What is my Amazon bill?"
  • Your current total is $5. Your itemised bill shows, Route53 - $3, DynamoDB - $2
• "Scale my backend service to 5"
  • I have scaled the backend service to 5 instances

Setup

Steps are covered in the 'AlexaOps' (final) section of the presentation however are also covered below in less detail.

• Create a new skill in the Alexa Developer console.
• Take note of the skill id in the created skill.
• Create intents, slots and utterances - alexa_template.json can be copied into the code editor.
• Change ALEXA_SKILL_ID in the serverless.yml to the above value.
• Run serverless deploy
• Take note of the created function's ARN.
• In the Alexa developer console add the lambda endpoint ARN.
• Check the skill is enabled within your account in the Alexa App

Presentation

The initial revision of the presentation is available on GitHub pages