It looks like Amazon has given up on making Alexa happen as a developer platform. The company will stop paying developers to make Alexa apps or give them free AWS credits.

As someone who’s worked on both successful and failed developer platforms, there are only two things that matter for attracting developers; making money and reaching lots of people. You can only subsidize for so long.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/amazon-to-stop-paying-developers-to-create-apps-for-alexa