Exercise 5: Create an Alias (AWS CLI) - Amazon Lex V1
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Exercise 5: Create an Alias (AWS CLI)

An alias is a pointer to a specific version of a bot. With an alias you can easily update the version that your client applications are using. For more information, see Versioning and Aliases.To run the commands in this exercise, you need to know the region where the commands will be run. For a list of regions, see Model Building Quotas .

To create an alias (AWS CLI)

  1. In the AWS CLI, get the version of the OrderFlowersBot bot that you created in Exercise 4: Publish a Version (AWS CLI). 

    aws lex-models get-bot \
    --region region \
    --name OrderFlowersBot \
    --version-or-alias version > OrderFlowersBot_V5.json

  2. In a text editor, open OrderFlowersBot_v5.json. Find and record the version number.

  3. In the AWS CLI, create the bot alias:

    aws lex-models put-bot-alias  \
    --region region \
    --name PROD \
    --bot-name OrderFlowersBot \
    --bot-version version

    The following is the reponse from the server:

    {
    "name": "PROD",
    "createdDate": timestamp,
    "checksum": "checksum",
    "lastUpdatedDate": timestamp,
    "botName": "OrderFlowersBot",
    "botVersion": "1"
}}

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Exercise 6: Clean Up (AWS CLI)