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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

Testing your chat experience

Now that the solution is deployed, it is time to test it out to see how it works. To do this, you will need to log in to the Connect instance as your test user. Your test user will need to be configured with the Billing routing profile. If you need to, set this routing profile on your test user first. When everything is set, log in and make the user active in the client so that you can receive a chat message.

Once you are logged in, you can access the website as a customer and initiate a chat session. To find out where the site is, access the stack via the CloudFormation console and locate the Outputs tab. We are looking for the cloudFrontDistribution output in the stack, as detailed in the following screenshot. Click this link to launch the website:

Figure 13.22 – Outputs

When you access the website, you will be prompted with a simplistic website asking for a first name and a username. Enter your name and a username and...