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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

Summary

We now have a somewhat operational Connect instance. There are still many missing pieces, but you should be able to call your new phone number at this point. If you try your number, you will be prompted with several options that demonstrate some of the Connect capabilities.

It is highly probable that you will come back to some of the items discussed in this chapter several times during your call center's deployment. Picking phone numbers, creating call queues and security profiles, and adding users are all common actions.

The next step in the process is to start creating our contact flows. As we discussed before, contact flows allow you to control the experience for your customers. In Chapter 6, Contact Flow Creation, we will cover creating those contact flows. We will rely on the features we created in this chapter, such as the testing user and operating hours, to test those flows.