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Deploying Your First Alexa Skill
In this lab, you will learn how to use ASK to create a new skill from templates. You will learn how to set up your lab environment for Alexa skill building, and then you will deploy a simple skill and test it. By the end of the lab, you will have deployed your first Alexa skill and proven it functions successfully. Objectives for this lab include learning to initialize the `ask-cli`, deploying a templated skill and making a slight modification to it, and deploying the skill and testing it works as expected. **Note:** You must have your own Amazon Developer account, which you can [sign up](https://developer.amazon.com/) for if you do not already have one.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Configure Amazon Skills Kit to Use Your AWS Developer Account
Upgrade and initialize the ASK CLI. Then, connect to the AWS account on the VM.
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Challenge
Clone Skill and Check Out Branch
Clone and configure the skill template.
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Challenge
Update Skill Code
Update the
skill.json
file. Then, apply changes to the../models/en-US.json
and../lambda/custom/index.js
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Challenge
Deploy and Test
Deploy and test the skill.
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Challenge
Clean Up Amazon Developer Account Alexa Console
At this point, the skill you just created should be deleted from your Alexa Developer Console.
Please do so at this link: Alexa Developer Console.
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