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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

Deploying the solution via CloudFormation

With our instance ID in hand, we can now begin the process of deploying the solution. I've chosen CloudFormation here because users of AWS widely understand it. You might opt for another Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool such as Terraform for your integration in your organization. It's important to understand the pros and cons of your IaC tooling before you start programming your integration.

To begin the deployment, access CloudFormation via the AWS console. CloudFormation is located under the Management & Governance section, as shown in Figure 8.4:

Figure 8.4 – CloudFormation

Download the template file from https://connect-up-and-running.info/files/connect_lambda.yaml. When you access the CloudFormation console, click the Create stack button in the screen's upper right noted in Figure 8.5:

Figure 8.5 – Create stack

A dropdown will appear; since we haven...