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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

Creating your call queues

Connect comes with a default queue called basicQueue. Follow these steps to create your queue:

  1. You can get to a queue list by selecting the USB looking icon to bring up the menu and select the Queues option as shown in Figure 5.19:

    Figure 5.19 – Queues menu

  2. An interesting thing about Connect is that you can't delete queues. I'm not sure why this is, but it's something to keep in mind. Don't go around creating queues like it's a free for all. You won't be able to get rid of them. I recommend taking a BasicQueue instance and repurposing it from the start. When you get to the list of queues as noted in Figure 5.20, click on the BasicQueue instance to edit it:

    Figure 5.20 – Queue list

  3. The queue editing screen (Figure 5.21) has several options for you to configure. I've changed the name of the basic queue to the primary queue and changed the description. On this page, you can select the Hours of operation...