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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

Testing the solution

To test the solution, we aren't going to interface it with any other contact flows. Instead, we will keep it isolated and use the test number we had created to test the flow directly. Before we can try this, we need to tie this phone number to the flow.

Access the Phone numbers configuration page through the USB menu on the left, noted in Figure 8.36:

Figure 8.36 – Phone numbers menu

The Connect administration site will present you with a list of phone numbers. Select the test phone number, or claim a new number. If you select an existing one, click the number in the leftmost column (Figure 8.37) to edit it:

Figure 8.37 – Phone number list

When the Edit Phone number screen appears, select the Contact flow / IVR dropdown (Figure 8.38) and find the Mega Mercy – Lab Results contact flow. When you have selected the flow, click the Save button:

Figure 8.38 – Edit...