# AMAZON.PauseIntent
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Responds to words and phrases that enable the user to pause an interaction with a bot so that they can return to it later. Your Lambda function or application needs to save intent data in session variables, or you need to use the [GetSession](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/APIReference/API_runtime_GetSession.html) operation to retrieve intent data when you resume the current intent.

Common utterances:
+ pause
+ pause that