Systems management with a voice UI using Amazon Alexa
Voice UIs like Amazon's Alexa can make systems management simple, intuitive, and delightful. The virtual private assistant feel of a VUI, coupled with the abstraction that voice commands bring, break the tedium of management tasks. Karthik Kirupanithi demonstrates how to put together an Alexa skill that can perform tasks using the EC2 Systems Manager.
| Talk Title | Systems management with a voice UI using Amazon Alexa |
| Speakers | Karthik Kirupanithi (Amazon Web Services) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build resilient systems at scale |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Date | October 2-4, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Voice UIs like Amazon’s Alexa can make systems management simple, intuitive, and delightful. The virtual private assistant feel of a VUI, coupled with the abstraction that voice commands bring, break the tedium of management tasks. Alexa allows engineers to create skills that can turn voice commands into an automated process. For instance, the EC2 Systems Manager skill turns an engineer’s voice command (e.g., “Send me a list of all web servers that are not patched”) into an API call and schedules an action or fetches results. In addition to being able to perform complex actions, Alexa also provides a notification system that can be used to get event notifications, such as patch failures. Karthik Kirupanithi demonstrates how to put together an Alexa skill that can perform tasks using the EC2 Systems Manager, covering how to address authentication and notification and how to personalize your skill to address your specific needs. Along the way, Karthik offers a glimpse of how powerful voice dashboards can be.
