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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

Copying contact flows

We modified our first flow using one of the default flows that come with Connect. Then, we created our entry point from scratch by creating our flow. This time, we are going to copy an existing flow to make our first customer interaction. As you can probably tell, we walk through each way to create a flow with each new flow we create.

For this flow, we want to create a branching flow—that is, a flow that directs users to one department or another. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. We will make a copy of the existing flow called Sample inbound flow (first contact experience). First, we need to replicate some steps we already performed by going to the contact flow screen and then clicking on the Sample inbound flow (first contact experience) link. Once we do that, we will again be presented with the editing screen, which should look like this:

    Figure 6.24 – Sample editing screen

  2. At this time, we want to make a copy by saving it, but we...