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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

Configuring the CloudFormation Template

AWS provides a CloudFormation template that deploys the solution for you. Unfortunately, most of the solutions from AWS are designed to stand by themselves. They don't interoperate when you have more than one deployed. We are in this situation at this point because we have already deployed the voicemail solution. The voicemail and the analytics solutions overlap each other regarding this deployment. Connect can only support one Kinesis stream, and each solution deploys its own.

To resolve this conflict, we will need to modify the template used to deploy the analytics solution. We need to adjust the template to piggyback off of the existing Kinesis stream that was deployed. To get started, download the template from https://s3.amazonaws.com/lfcarocomdemo/glueconnect/glueconnectKinesis.yaml and open it in your favorite editor.

The first item that we want to change is the parameter at the beginning of the file. The original template uses...