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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)
1
Section 1: Planning
6
Section 2: Implementation

Connecting to Amazon Connect

By default, Connect cannot just use Lex bots after they are created—they need to be attached first. To make this connection, we will have to enter the AWS Management Console and edit the instance. This function isn't performed in the Connect Administration Console. Let's use the following steps to build this connection:

  1. To begin, click on Amazon Connect in the AWS console. See the following screenshot for reference:

    Figure 7.20 – Amazon Connect

  2. You will be presented with a list of your Connect instances. Find the instance that you deployed as part of Chapter 5, Base Connection implementation. You will want to click the link in the leftmost column (Figure 7.21) to access the AWS Management Console for this instance. If you click the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the second column, you will be taken to the Connect Management Console. We will get to those configurations in the next section. The instance list is shown...