AI-powered Chatbots Integration with Incident Management.

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AI-powered chatbots can be a valuable asset in modern incident management, streamlining communication and offering immediate responses to common inquiries or issues. When integrating such chatbots into an incident management workflow, you would typically be working with services from cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and third-party services like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or ServiceNow.

In this Pulumi program, I will guide you through setting up an integration with Amazon Connect to create a chatbot using Amazon Lex, and then I will show you how to associate this bot with an AWS Connect instance. This setup can be part of a larger incident management solution where the chatbot can help with initial incident reporting or provide information on incident status.

Below is a program that uses Pulumi to create these resources using `pulumi_aws`, the Pulumi AWS SDK.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create an Amazon Lex Bot, which will power the chatbot.
# The specifications for intents and dialogues within the bot will be defined in Lex's configuration.
lex_bot = aws.lex.Bot("exampleLexBot",
    create_version=True,
    child_directed=False,
    description="Example Lex Bot for Incident Management",
    intents=[aws.lex.BotIntentArgs(
        intent_name="FulfillmentIntent",  # Example intent
        intent_version="1",
    )],
    clarification_prompt=[aws.lex.BotClarificationPromptArgs(
        max_attempts=5,
        messages=[aws.lex.BotClarificationPromptMessageArgs(
            content="I didn't get that, please provide more information.",
            content_type="PlainText",
        )],
    )],
    abort_statement=[aws.lex.BotAbortStatementArgs(
        messages=[aws.lex.BotAbortStatementMessageArgs(
            content="I'm sorry, I wasn't able to understand. Please try again later.",
            content_type="PlainText"
        )],
    )],
    locale="en-US",
    child_directed=False,
    process_behavior="SAVE",
    voice_id="Salli"
)

# Create an AWS Connect instance which will be used to manage communication channels.
connect_instance = aws.connect.Instance("exampleConnectInstance",
    identity_management_type="CONNECT_MANAGED",
    inbound_calls_enabled=True,
    outbound_calls_enabled=True
)

# Associate the Lex Bot with the AWS Connect instance to enable chatbot functionality in Connect.
bot_association = aws.connect.BotAssociation("exampleBotAssociation",
    instance_id=connect_instance.id,
    lexbot=aws.connect.BotAssociationLexbotArgs(
        name=lex_bot.name,  # Reference the Lex bot created above.
        lex_region="us-east-1"  # Assuming our Lex Bot is created in us-east-1. Update this accordingly.
    )
)

# Export the Amazon Connect instance ARN and the Lex Bot name for easy access after deployment.
pulumi.export("connect_instance_arn", connect_instance.arn)
pulumi.export("lex_bot_name", lex_bot.name)
```

Let's break down what this program is doing:

1. **Lex Bot Creation**: A chatbot is configured with Amazon Lex. The `aws.lex.Bot` resource defines the bot's behavior, including its intents (actions the bot can perform based on user input) and dialog management.

2. **Connect Instance**: An Amazon Connect instance is created through `aws.connect.Instance`. Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center solution that can be used with chatbots for incident management workflows.

3. **Bot Association**: The Lex Bot is associated with the Amazon Connect instance using `aws.connect.BotAssociation`. This allows the chatbot to be used within Amazon Connect to interact with users, gathering information about incidents and possibly offering immediate assistance.

4. **Exports**: The program exports the Amazon Connect instance ARN and Lex Bot name so you can easily reference these resources in your Pulumi stack or in the AWS Console.

This Pulumi program creates the infrastructure for integrating a chatbot into an incident management system but it doesn't include the specific logic for incident management, which would be defined within Amazon Lex's configuration and potentially involve other AWS services or third-party integrations depending on your specific incident management requirements.