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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

Understanding the data flow

Connect records everything that happens in the instance in records called Contact Trace Records (CTRs). These records can be used to create reports on what has happened in your Connect instance. QuickSight can't use these reports natively. They must first be saved somewhere and processed. To do this, the solution connects your instance to S3 via Kinesis. From there, Glue and Athena are used to process the data to make it consumable for QuickSight.

The diagram in Figure 11.1 details the pieces that make the whole process work. Thankfully, all of these components will be deployed for you using the template. Most of the work that needs to be done is within QuickSight, where you will create dashboards to monitor your call center:

Figure 11.1 – Reporting workflow

Now that we have a basic understanding of how the selection works, let's move on to deploying it via CloudFormation.