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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

Lex bot costing

Just like the other services that we talked about here, Amazon Lex is also a pay-as-you-go service. With Connect, Lex provides the bot interfaces and Natural Language Processing (NLP) required for your contact flow to offer the user experience enhancements that we talked about in Chapter 1, Benefits of Amazon Connect. How AWS charges for Lex is by voice and text request. Amazon charges $0.004 per voice request and $0.00075 per text request. As with Lambda, the costs for Lex are meager. Like Lambda, the nature of call centers and the amount of service use will also keep your costs low.

Lex is another service where you can't estimate costs until you sketch out some ideas about how your contact flows will operate. You will need to estimate the number of locations at which you will be using Lex. I want to be clear on the types of interactions that Lex works with. Lex is not used in a situation where you would have a prompt saying, "press one to check order...