Amazon has announced a program to subsidize the hosting of Alexa skills that use AWS Lambda and incur use charges beyond what is provided by the AWS free tier. Only developers having at least one skill live are eligible to apply.
Amazon has announced a program to subsidize the hosting of Alexa skills that use AWS Lambda and other AWS services and incur use charges beyond what is provided by the AWS Free Tier. Only developers having at least one skill live are eligible to apply.
Amazon’s promotion is aimed to make the costs of hosting an Alexa skill significantly more predictable for developers. Until now, Amazon Free Tier allowed to run Alexa skills using AWS Lambda and Amazon EC2 without incurring any charges for up to one million AWS Lambda requests and 750 hours of EC2 compute time per month. Still, it can be pretty hard for developers to predict how successful their skills can be, or whether they will experience periods of higher usage with the related risk of incurring charges.
