Amazon Lex now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region

Posted on: Jun 30, 2020

Starting today, customers can build and deploy Amazon Lex bots in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”).  

With this launch, Amazon Lex is now available in 8 regions globally, US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland and London), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo). To get started, visit documentation page.