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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

Deploying contact flows

The solution that we are going to deploy needs a couple of contact flows deployed beforehand. The solution we are using is available on GitHub. The URL we need to use to get the contact flows from is https://github.com/amazon-connect/amazon-connect-chat-ui-examples/tree/master/cloudformationTemplates/asyncCustomerChatUX. Access the repository and download the two contact flow JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files from the contactFlows directory.

We will import these two flows using the same process as before, in Chapter 6, Contact Flow Creation. The following steps will demonstrate how:

  1. Access Contact flows in the Connect instance administration. Click the Create contact flow button, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 13.2 – Creating a flow

  2. On the editing screen, click on the down arrow on the far right, next to Save. We want to select Import flow (beta) to import the first file, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

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