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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

Deploying Connect

Now is when the real work starts:

  1. The first thing you need to do is log on to your AWS account using the management role that we just discussed. How you access this role will depend on the authentication mode you are using, such as SAML. Once you are logged on with that role, you will need to find the Amazon Connect service. Connect is located under the Customer Engagement heading. It will appear as in Figure 5.1:

    Figure 5.1 – Amazon service menu

  2. Once you click on Amazon Connect, you will be greeted with the Connect service welcome page as shown in Figure 5.2. Here you will want to click on Get started. If you don't see Get started, don't worry; this just means that someone has accessed or created a Connect instance before you got here. If this is the case, you will instead see a list of deployed Connect instances:

    Figure 5.2 – Getting started

  3. When you click on Get started, you will be prompted for the authentication method you...