Category: Best Practices

Overview Manual DKIM signing on Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) gives you direct control over which headers your messages sign, including the ability to over-sign headers for DKIM replay attack mitigation. Amazon SES offers two DKIM signing paths, and the difference between them determines how much control you have. Easy DKIM: SES manages DKIM […]

Building a unified multi-channel agent experience Building a unified agent workspace for voice, SMS, and WhatsApp requires connecting three distinct communication channels — each with its own provisioning path, compliance model, and throughput characteristics — into a single routing and analytics experience. This post shows how to architect that unified workspace on Amazon Connect Customer, […]

Introduction International two-way SMS with Amazon Connect Customer requires navigating country-specific telecom regulations, origination identity types, and registration processes. Contact centers serving global customers need to reach them via SMS in their local country, but each country has different origination identity types, registration requirements, and two-way messaging capabilities. Amazon Connect Customer natively supports two-way SMS […]

Amazon Connect Customer migrations stall because of common avoidable pitfalls that push timelines, inflate budgets, and erode stakeholder confidence. Based on our experience supporting dozens of enterprise contact center migrations, we’ve identified the most common reasons migrations stall and what organizations can do differently. This post is for migration program managers, IT leaders, and business […]

Onboarding agents into Amazon Connect Customer becomes a manual task when organizations standardize on AWS IAM Identity Center as the federation hub for their AWS environment, synchronizing their corporate identity provider (IdP) into a central Identity Store and using it for single sign-on across AWS applications. If you run Amazon Connect Customer this way, and […]

1. Introduction When an agent places a call is placed through a quick connect or the number pad using the contact control panel (CCP), the outbound caller ID depends on whether the agent is already on an active call. This blog explains how Amazon Connect Customer selects the caller ID in each scenario and how to […]

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) Agents, Prompts, and Guardrails give contact centers extensive control over how generative AI engages customers and supports human agents. Built into the next generation of Amazon Connect Customer, these three features let you select the right large language model (LLM) for each task and configure how it behaves within your contact […]

Your Amazon Connect Customer contact center measures customer satisfaction (CSAT), but CSAT doesn’t predict whether customers will stay. Research suggests high-effort service interactions are the strongest driver of customer disloyalty. Customer Effort Score (CES) measures how easy it was to get an issue resolved — the strongest predictor of loyalty and churn. Most organizations lack […]

Authentication during chat is a balancing act: require it too early and you lose customers who need quick answers; skip it entirely and you face compliance challenges when conversations shift to account-specific topics. When customers start a chat in Amazon Connect Customer, they might begin with a simple question but then need account-specific assistance that […]

What you will learn: How Amazon Connect’s enhanced module nesting (up to five levels deep) and universal cross-flow compatibility enable you to build maintainable, reusable contact center workflows, illustrated through a real-world travel booking reservation use case. Introduction In November 2025, we announced three powerful new capabilities for Amazon Connect flow modules: custom blocks with […]