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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

Flow components

The flows in Connect are created by stringing together several flow components to create your call center feel. AWS has broken these flow components down into five categories. We will cover each of these categories as well as all the components in each. Where applicable, I will include some examples of where and when you might use a particular component. The five categories that we are going to cover are as follows:

  • Interactions
  • Settings
  • Branch
  • Integrate
  • Terminate/transfer

For each of the components, we will cover what the component does and what its output paths are. The output paths are what you will use to connect your components to create a flow. Moving from one component to the next one changes based on the outputs and inputs of each.

Interactions

The interactions grouping is used to interface with the customer on the phone or chat window. It is used to either deliver or extract information from the customer. You will use these...