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Does nayone know how i would go about using oAuth?

Hi, I am trying to learn as much as possible about developing for Alexa, however I seemed to have stumbled when it comes to using oAuth. Is it Supported using Lambda? Or does it have to be hosted on your own web service? Has anyone got any information or references as to how this can be done please? Thanks for your time!
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Hi, It depends on what you are using oauth for. Usually, you would be using it to authenticate to a third party service, or for account linking tokens. If you are doing account linking, you will need a bit more than just Lambda, since you will need a login page somewhere for your users, and you cannot easily host static pages on Lambda, nor can you store the data received from them. There have been several suggestions on this forum about implementing account linking using an all AWS (minus EC2) solution, but I don't believe anyone has actually implemented that yet. We're always looking to improve our documentation, so thanks for your suggestion regarding that. -Nick
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