Alexa Skills Set SDK - increase timeout of skill

Question

I am building an Alexa instructional exercise skill using the Alexa Skill Set SDK on nodejs. I am saving each cooking step to the DB, therefore if the skill times out, the u

Answer 1

I have been trying to do this for quite awhile. There have been several responses on the Amazon developer forums from folks at Amazon (for example, this response) that state that the approximate 8-10 second timeout is not configurable.