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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
6
Section 2: Implementation

Summary

This chapter helped you understand how CTR records are output from the Connect instance and how, using various AWS services, these records can be processed and made consumable by QuickSight.

We started by modifying CloudFormation to meet our specific requirements before we deployed the solution. We also improved the security stance as a byproduct. From there, we granted access to S3 and, finally, created a visualization to test the overall solution.

Our call center is starting to take shape at this point. We have a lot of functionality, such as the analytics we deployed in this chapter, available to us that we wouldn't have if we were using a conventional on-premises hardware solution. In the next chapter, we want to build further upon our implementation with the advanced capabilities for sentiment analysis offered by Contact Lens.