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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

Understanding Lambda's capabilities

Lambda is probably my favorite AWS service. Lambda allows you to run code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. This service allows you to focus on what matters most: your code. After all, who wants to worry about things like how much CPU your application needs? Additionally, without running instances in EC2, your costs for running code are significantly reduced. This feature makes Lambda an excellent choice for our integration with Amazon Connect. We wouldn't want to use an entire EC2 instance to run our integration code. It wouldn't be utilized enough to warrant the expense.

Lambda is an event-driven service. What I mean by that is that code is executed based on an event or trigger. A trigger could be a scheduled event, or a file put into an S3 bucket, or a trigger from Connect, for instance. This functionality makes Lambda an excellent choice for our integration as there is an easy way to interface between the...