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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

Number validation

Set callback number performs some special functions in addition to just setting the number. This component also validates the number. Since we are using the number that the call is coming from, everything should be OK. But there may be an instance where the caller ID was not available, and therefore the system doesn't have a valid number. To account for this condition, we still need to validate the number and act accordingly. On success, we need to connect this output to the Play prompt component that was after the original Set callback number. This connection will add the callback to the callback queue.

For the invalid number and not dialable outputs, we will want to connect these to the same Play prompt component that the original Set callback number was connected to. These connections will capture any issue with the caller ID and request that the user enters a new number manually. Your contact flow should now look as in Figure 9.7:

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