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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

Chapter 4: Connect Costing

Whenever you migrate or deploy something to the cloud, one of the most significant changes in mindset is to do with costing. No company is going to move forward with a project without knowing the costs. With typical on-premises deployments, this is usually a large capital expenditure with ongoing maintenance expenses. When you migrate to a cloud-based solution, you won't have those capital expenditures. Instead, the cloud is a pay-as-you-go model where you pay for what you use. Some of these costs are straightforward. For instance, Amazon QuickSight has a per-user consumption model. This model is relatively straightforward to forecast. However, when you start looking at services such as Lambda, things can get a bit more complicated. Lambda has three consumption models, making it much more complicated to estimate costs.

The good news is that when we are talking about these services concerning Amazon Connect, things get a bit easier for you. The primary...