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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By : Jeff Armstrong
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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

Amazon Connect: Up and Running

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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

Solution overview

The solution we will be deploying consists of a CloudFormation template and a Connect contact flow. We will deploy the CloudFormation template first and then follow it up to create the contact flow in Connect.

CloudFormation deploys the required components to operate the Lambda function and the function itself. The Lambda function will access an internal datastore and retrieve the lab results for the identified patient. The Lambda function is written in Python.

The flow of the solution is detailed in Figure 8.1:

Figure 8.1 – Solution flow

Everything originates from your Connect flow, which makes sense, as Connect is aware when the call originates, it would be impossible for your application to originate the request as it wouldn't know what data to send. Once your connected flow reaches the Lambda component, it begins the flow in the solution. These are the steps as they occur:

  1. Connect reaches out and launches the...

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