Fact · Voice and AI
Amazon Web Services defines an intent in Amazon Lex as something that represents an action that the user wants to perform.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Represents an action that the user wants to perform.”
AWS::Lex::Bot Intent (AWS CloudFormation User Guide), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, n.d., Intent property description, opening sentence.
Open the original- What it measures
- The AWS CloudFormation reference for the Amazon Lex bot intent resource, which is the entity a bot uses to represent one thing a user can ask it to do.
- What it does not show
- This is a one-line property description in a deployment reference. It defines the term but does not describe how the recognizer maps speech to an intent.