# Creating Amazon Lex V2 bot aliases for Amazon Chime SDK messaging
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Once you create one or more versions of an Amazon Lex V2 bot, you create *aliases*. Aliases act as named pointers to the versions of an Amazon Lex V2 bot. For example, You can only associate an alias with one version at a time.

For more information about Lex bot aliases, see [Creating aliases](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/aliases.html) in the *Lex V2 Developer Guide*.