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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

Enabling Contact Lens

To enable Contact Lens, we need to perform two separate configuration options, the first of which is to enable Contact Lens on the instance itself. To do this, you will need to log in to the AWS management console and access the console for Amazon Connect. Follow these steps to enable Contact Lens:

  1. When you reach the Connect console, you will need to access the menu on the screen's left-hand side to access the Analytics tools settings. You can see this option on the menu in the following screenshot:

    Figure 12.1 – Instance settings

  2. When you select this option, the screen's right-hand side will update with the details listed in the following screenshot. To enable Contact Lens on the instance, we need to check the box highlighted here and click Save:

    Figure 12.2 – Analytics tools

  3. Once you complete this configuration, the instance is now ready to process calls and analyze them.

    However, at this time, Contact Lens doesn't...