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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

There has been a lot of work to get your call center to this position in the book. This chapter covered some of the heaviest lifting from a technology perspective. The ability to create, copy, and import contact flows are central knowledge points for operating Connect. We touched on how to configure many of the most common components in contact flows as well.

By completing this chapter and the exercises, you are well on your way to understanding how you can operate Connect for base functionality. In truth, if you don't have a complex call-center need, this chapter might be all you need to make it operational. However, even if that is the case, I hope you continue to follow along and increase your skillset.

In the remainder of the book, we will create the more advanced features that provide many of the benefits we discussed in Chapter 1, Benefits of Amazon Connect. In the next chapter, we will start by creating Lex bots that allow us to capture human speech and convert...