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Hello,

I have built an Alexa skill that invokes an AWS IoT object to publish a payload to a specific topic - but I do not see any payloads published from within the Test section of the AWS IoT dashboard.

1. The skill successfully exits when tested - no errors indicated anywhere inside the code.
2. After the skill exits a test, I don't see the payload in the Test area of the AWS IoT dashboard
   
   1. The IoTData object is initialized without any errors:

      var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
      var iotdata = new AWS.IotData({endpoint: '************.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com'});

   2. I receive no errors from the following code:

      var params = {
                  topic: 'b827ebac1bba/commands',
                  payload: '0',
                  qos: 0
              };
              iotdata.publish(params);
      

3. The IAM policy role attached to the Lambda function allows iot:Publish:

4. {
       "Version": "2012-10-17",
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": [
                   "logs:CreateLogStream",
                   "logs:PutLogEvents"
               ],
               "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
           },
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": "iot:Publish",
               "Resource": "*"
           },
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": "logs:CreateLogGroup",
               "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
           }
       ]
   }

Any idea on what I should try next?