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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By : Jeff Armstrong
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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By: Jeff Armstrong

Overview of this book

Amazon Connect is a pay-as-you-go cloud contact center solution that powers Amazon’s customer contact system and provides an impressive user experience while reducing costs. Connect's scalability has been especially helpful during COVID-19, helping customers with research, remote work, and other solutions, and has driven adoption rates higher. Amazon Connect: Up and Running will help you develop a foundational understanding of Connect's capabilities and how businesses can effectively estimate the costs and risks associated with migration. Complete with hands-on tutorials, costing profiles, and real-world use cases relating to improving business operations, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to get your call center online, interface with critical business systems, and take your customer experience to the next level. As you advance, you'll understand the benefits of using Amazon Connect and cost estimation guidelines for migration and new deployments. Later, the book guides you through creating AI bots, implementing interfaces, and leveraging machine learning for business analytics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to bring a Connect call center online with all its major components and interfaces to significantly reduce personnel overhead and provide your customers with an enhanced user experience (UX).
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Planning
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Section 2: Implementation

Creating the contact flow

The contact flow is where we will do the bulk of the work for this solution. It is also where the majority of the logic is performed for the overall process. The Lambda function, after all, merely retrieves the information from the API. To get started, log in to the Connect administration console. Select your instance to view the overview page, where you will see the login URL. For a refresher, the link is highlighted in Figure 8.15. Log in using the administrator account:

Figure 8.15 – Login URL

Using the USB-looking menu icon on the left-hand menu, select the Contact flows option highlighted in Figure 8.16:

Figure 8.16 – Contact flows option

In the contact flows main screen showing a list of your flows, click on the Create contact flow button in the upper left-hand corner shown in Figure 8.17:

Figure 8.17 – Create contact flow

You will now be shown the contact...