Can I query Kendra from Lex without AMAZON.KendraSearchIntent ?

Hi, Thank you for reaching out!

AMAZON.KendraSearchIntent is a native integration with Lex, however you can always invoke Kendra within your Lambda function.

In your custom intent, you can use your Lambda to call the Kendra index, then the Lambda response can populate the request attributes like this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/built-in-intent-kendra-search.html#kendra-search-response with the response from your Kendra query.

These request attributes will be come available to be picked up in Closing Response. :)

I hope this helps!

Mathilda