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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

Chapter 6: Contact Flow Creation

Now that we have created the Connect instance, it's time to complete the contact flows that form the user experience. The bulk of the work that is done in Connect is performed in contact flows. We will walk through creating several contact flows, using a couple of the types that we discussed in Chapter 3, Sketching Your Contact Flows. The reason for multiple flows is that we can demonstrate the connectivity between them. Understanding this connectivity is vitally important if you want to be able to segment your flows properly. Remember, proper flow segmentation reduces long-term risk by lowering individual flow complexity.

In addition to introducing you to creating a few types of contact flows, we will also cover many of the flow components we also discussed in Chapter 3, Sketching Your Contact Flows. A contact flow cannot perform any function and needs the flow components nested inside of it to operate. By following along in this chapter, your...