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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

Using the management portal

The management portal is used to configure your users' voicemail settings and download the preconfigured contact flows. For this part of the configuration, we are concerned with the contact flows. These flows will allow us to integrate the solution to connect as part of the call flow process.

To get started, we need to locate the URL of the management interface:

  1. The management URL was created as an output to the VoicemailPortalStack deployed as part of the solution. To find this location, we need to access that stack's information to see its output. Locate the stack in your CloudFormation console. It should look similar to Figure 10.19. Click on the stack name in the left-hand column:

    Figure 10.19 – Stacks

  2. The next screen will display all of the information for the stack. We are interested in the Outputs tab. Click this tab to see the outputs. The output that will give you the URL you need to access is called DistributionDomainName...