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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

Launching the solution

To launch the solution, you need to download the CloudFormation template from AWS. You can download the template from this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/solutions-reference/voicemail-for-amazon-connect/latest/voicemail-for-amazon-connect.template.

Before we start launching the solution via CloudFormation, you need to gather your existing Connect instance's instance ID. The solution will need to know how to access it to capture the deployed users and synchronize them to its database. The steps to gather the required information are the following:

  1. To get the Connect instance ID, you will need to go to the Amazon Connect section of the AWS console and click on your instance. When you do, you will be shown the screen depicted in Figure 10.3. You will want to copy the instance ID, which is the part after the / in the Instance ARN. We will use this in a later step:

    Figure 10.3 – Connect instance ID

  2. Once you have that data, you can move on...