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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

Section 2: Implementation

Part 1 of this book is centered around gathering the intelligence required to deploy your Connect call center. Now that you have captured your business requirements, sketched out your call flows, and estimated your costs, you should be at the point in the project where you need to start implementing your Connect instance.

The rest of the book will focus on how rather than why. You have carefully crafted your why stories in Part 1. We will now take those stories and translate them into functional products. The focus will be on the technical aspects, and we will guide you through a complete implementation. Most of the benefits discussed will be covered to tell you about them and demonstrate them.

I encourage you to set up an AWS account to follow along with the next chapters. It is advised to use a sandbox account for the type of work we are doing to not disrupt any production workloads. Since we are primarily focusing on Connect, we will not cover the...