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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

Solution overview

In this solution, we will implement a callback flow that can be used for all of our departments. We are going to start by editing the flow called Sample interruptible queue flow with callback. To make the flow more effective from a customer standpoint, we will automatically capture the phone number from the Connect instance. This change will allow customers to accept the number that we have captured to move on, rather than entering their number and then verifying. We will begin this process in the next section.

Before we get started on that, let's cover some callback basics so that you understand how callbacks work in depth. When a caller asks to have a callback, their information is appended to the queue that is currently assigned. When the next agent is available, this person is then called back by Connect automatically and routed to an agent.

A few critical items need to be kept in mind with callbacks. Firstly, if, for some reason, there are no agents...