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Today, we’re excited to announce three upgrades to our Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Software Development Kits (SDKs) that make them easier to use and integrate to your existing infrastructure.

Now Generally Available: Select Alexa-hosted for your skill’s back-end when creating a new skill to automatically provision a set of Alexa-hosted AWS cloud services for your skill’s back-end.

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Command-Line Interface (CLI) makes it easier to manage your Alexa skill throughout its lifecycle. The post describes how I automated the ASK CLI to sync my Alexa skill's interaction model faster.

日本語環境で発話プロファイラーが利用できるようになりました。発話プロファイラーを利用することで、ユーザーの発話がどのインテントとスロットにマッピングされているかをテストすることができます。今回は、発話プロファイラーの利用方法とともに一貫したユーザエクスペリエンスを提供するための効果的なスキルのテスト方法を紹介します。

You can now find dynamic estimations on when your skill’s certification results will be provided, a history of certification updates, and a list of countries where your live skills are available – all in the Alexa Developer Console or through SMAPI.

We're excited to announce that you can now view how your skill model selects intents and slots across the skill building process, and use this information to improve your interaction model to create more accurate and engaging skills.

You can now select Alexa-hosted for your skill’s back-end services when creating a new skill, a new skill-hosting option that automatically provisions and manages a set of AWS cloud services for your skill’s back-end.