Millions of users use Amazon Alexa with Amazon Echo’s devices for their homes and offices. Alexa was integrated in 10 million BMW and MINI vehicles and starting mid 2018 it will be active in all USA, UK and Germany BMW and MINI. I will explain you: - how Alexa works under the hood, - what are Alexa features and skills, - how to develop your own skill and start using it with your echo dot. In details, I’ll show you the protocol level of smart home devices - how you can build devices that will be controlled using Alexa and integrate into your smart home. Since Alexa is an Amazon service, it is perfectly integrates with AWS Lambdas. I’ll give an overview of serverless architecture advantages. Also I’ll explain how to integrate it with on premise solutions, if you are using other clouds providers or custom data centers. At the end I want to share with you my project of software smart gateway, that emulates smart devices and allows to execute “non-cloud” local Lambdas on smart home devices by triggering them with voice commands from AWS Echo or Google Home.