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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

Deploying the solution

With all the information for deployment in hand, we can start deploying the CloudFormation template. To begin, follow these steps:

  1. Access the CloudFormation console, as we have in previous chapters, to begin the deployment process.

    You will want to create a new stack, as we have done before. However, this time, instead of uploading a template, we will reference the existing one in S3 directly. Set the template source as Amazon S3 URL and enter https://s3.amazonaws.com/us-east-1.amazon-connect-advanced-customer-chat-cfn/cloudformation.yaml into the Amazon S3 URL location. Your settings should mimic those shown in Figure 13.19. When you are done, click Next, as shown here:

    Figure 13.19 – Creating a stack

  2. In the Parameters section, we need to enter in the information that we captured previously. But first, start by giving the stack a name. I've called mine CONNECT-CHAT to align to the naming convention we have already used for the other solutions...