Amazon has decided to stop paying developers to build Alexa apps and giving them free AWS credits, shutting down the Alexa Developer Rewards Program and the AWS Promotional Credits for Alexa program ...

Amazon to End Program That Pays Developers to Create Alexa Skills The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills.

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...