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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

Connect instance requirements

For the chat function to work within the Connect instance, we need to ensure that the routing profiles have chat enabled. If you recall, routing profiles allow you to configure which queues your agents will have access to. In addition, you can also select which channels they have access to: voice, chat, or both.

For our Connect instance for Mega Mercy Hospital, we will connect our chat to the billing department. Chat is usually enabled by default but let's check the routing profile, just to make sure. To check the profile, access the routing profiles through the user menu in your Connect instance. We want to locate and edit the routing profile for the billing department.

When you edit the routing profile, you will see several settings that are specific to chat. To ensure that chat is enabled, identify the checkboxes for Voice and Chat and ensure that they are checked. You can reference the following screenshot as to where these settings are...