AWS Contact Center
Category: Announcements
Elevate your Amazon Connect skills with specialty training badges
The contact center space is rapidly evolving, making it difficult for companies and people to stay up to date on the latest capabilities and best practices. Since launching in 2017, Amazon Connect has evolved as well with over 700 major feature releases, largely driven by customer input. The expanded features of Amazon Connect deliver the […]
Elevate your contact center workforce management using the new Amazon Connect Forecasting, Capacity Planning and Scheduling features (2025 Q2)
Workforce management (WFM) is essential for contact center success. It matches staff levels to call volume patterns, which reduces customer wait times and operational costs. Effective WFM ensures the right agents with the right skills are available at the right time to handle customer contact volume. This systematic approach to scheduling maximizes both agent productivity […]
Enhance customer engagement with Amazon Connect multi-user in-app, web, and video calling
Amazon Connect multi-user in-app, web, and video calling capabilities enables multiple customers and agents to seamlessly participate in the same communication session. During an ongoing call initiated from a web browser or mobile application, participants can dynamically add more attendees, enhance the interaction with video capabilities, and share their screens. This solution transforms traditionally complex multi-user conversations into streamlined, collaborative experiences that drive better customer outcomes.
Your unified view of travelers and guests from Amazon Connect Customer Profiles
Historically, travel and hospitality companies relied on loyalty programs to do exactly that—build loyalty. However, a McKinsey & Company report shows that loyalty is in decline. The same study from McKinsey advises that travel and hospitality companies can win loyalty by “offering distinctive, satisfying experiences” through more personalized engagement. The key to delighting customers and […]
Customer Contact Week 2025: Transform your contact center with AI-powered innovation
6/3/2025 update: The following sessions switched time slots, “Elevate your outbound communications with Amazon Connect data foundation” and “Unifying customer engagement: From siloed systems to intelligent omnichannel.” The schedule below contains the up-to-date session information. The customer experience landscape has entered a new era of transformation, where generative AI and intelligent automation are no longer […]
AWS recognized as a leader in 2025 Forrester Wave for Contact Center as a Service with Amazon Connect
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Contact-Center-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2025. We believe this recognition underscores the continued evolution and strength of Amazon Connect, our cloud-based contact center solution, since its launch in 2017. This report evaluates the 10 most significant CCaaS providers based on Forrester’s comprehensive research criteria. In this […]
Elevate your contact center using the new Amazon Connect Forecasting, Capacity Planning and Scheduling features
Workforce management (WFM) is essential for contact center success. It matches staff levels to call volume patterns, which reduces customer wait times and operational costs. Effective WFM ensures the right agents with the right skills are available all the time to handle customer contact volume. This systematic approach to scheduling maximizes both agent productivity and […]
Introducing the next generation of Amazon Connect: AI-powered interactions that strengthen customer relationships and improve business outcomes
Amazon Connect now delivers first-party AI across all channels, featuring ongoing support for future AI capabilities with pricing that remains tied only to your underlying channel usage rather than AI consumption.
Natively integrate the digital channels and unified routing capabilities of Amazon Connect into Salesforce CRM
Many companies today struggle with disconnected customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center solutions, resulting in poor customer experiences, frustrated customer service representatives (CSRs), and inefficient operations. CSRs or contact center agents have to juggle multiple siloed applications, lacking real-time visibility into customer data and interaction history, while customers face frustrating experiences bouncing between self-service […]
Enterprise Connect 2025: Your guide to AWS sessions on AI and CX innovation
Enterprise Connect 2025 is around the corner, where attendees will explore the transformative intersection of AI and customer experience. From March 17-20 in Orlando, Florida, AWS leaders will be onsite, sharing insights on implementing AI strategically and delivering more meaningful customer experiences. Through keynotes, panel discussions, and interactive sessions, attendees will discover how organizations are […]