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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

Contact Lens costing

Contact Lens is an Amazon service that performs sentiment analysis on your phone calls and determines whether people are happy or upset with your product or service. Although Contact Lens is a powerful and complex system behind the scenes, the cost estimation is straightforward. Contact lens costs $0.015 per minute for the first 5 million minutes and then $0.0125 for everything over 5 million.

To cost Contact Lens, simply take the estimated number of minutes used for the base calculation and multiply that by the $0.015 rate. Using our original example for Connect voice charges of 20,833 minutes per month, the cost for Contact Lens would be $312.495. Given the capabilities that Contact Lens gives you in identifying and resolving your customers' issues, it provides fantastic value. To implement that level of technology yourself in a conventional on-premises system would cost you tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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