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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

Lambda costing

Remember that we stated that one of the most significant benefits of Amazon Connect is the ability to interface with third-party applications in Chapter 1, Benefits of Amazon Connect. It is these interfaces that create a rich user experience. How you make these interfaces is through a service from Amazon called Lambda. Lambda allows the execution of snippets of code without the use of a server. This lack of dedicated compute power will enable you to reduce your ongoing operations costs significantly. An issue arises when you want to estimate how much Lambda is going to cost you. With a confidential application, you can estimate how many CPUs you need and how much RAM and then pick an AWS instance accordingly. This sizing, in turn, will allow you to look up the pricing for that instance, and you can easily calculate the monthly expenditure.

When it comes to costing Lambda, three different consumption models need to be calculated:

  • The number of invocations...