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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
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Section 2: Implementation

Summary

Although this solution's implementation was simplistic, it shows you how to interface with your enterprise application to drive value for you and your customers. The more functions you can automate, the lower your overall costs will be for operating your call center. I always recommend looking at automation whenever possible in your workflows.

This chapter covered deploying the CloudFormation template, which deployed the Lambda function and any other necessary AWS resources. From there, we created the contact flow by hand to demonstrate how to build integration and understand the pieces in play. Finally, we tested the solution to make sure that everything worked as expected. In the next chapter, we will dive deep into implementing callbacks in your call center.