Amazon Web Services said it has launched Amazon Connect, a cloud contact center service. The move gets AWS more into the lucrative customer service market dominated by the likes of Salesforce, SAP and Oracle.
More importantly, Amazon Connect shows how AWS is moving up the cloud food chain from its infrastructure as a service roots. AWS has analytics, productivity tools, databases and other services that serve as upsell opportunities from infrastructure.
Amazon Connect, a call center as a service offering, is based on the contact center technology used by its e-commerce operations. Amazon Connect is launched via the AWS Management Console and agents can take calls in minutes. AWS detailed Connect in a blog and press release.
Salesforce said it will integrate its Service Cloud with Amazon Connect in an expansion of the companies’ strategic alliance. What remains to be seen is how Amazon Connect and Salesforce’s Service Cloud compete over time. It’s possible that the two services ultimately decouple software- and infrastructure-as-a-service as line items in the cloud bill for business technology decision makers.
Like most AWS services, Connect can be paid for by the sip. AWS will scale the virtual contact center as needed with the ability to support “tens of thousands” of agents. Connect will also feature caller experience design tools, links to other AWS services and databases and connections to third party CRM and analytics tools.
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