Alexa timeout wait time for the response

Question

Here is the scenario

1) Alexa sends a request to an API

2) API handles the request and functionality and sends back a response

Please find my questions below

How long can the API take to respond back to Alexa or in other words how long will Alexa (echo) device wait for the response until it times out ?

Also it is configurable?

Any solution to make sure the API returns back the response before a timeout?

Answer 1

The Alexa timeout is 10 seconds and you cannot change this, please follow this thread