AWS Contact Center

How to analyze Amazon Connect Voice ID metrics using Amazon CloudWatch

Join us for AWS Contact Center Day, a free virtual event where you’ll learn about the future of customer service, how machine learning can optimize customer and agent experiences—and more. Register now » Today, contact centers adopting Amazon Connect Voice ID are seeking insights from aggregated metrics such as number of successful enrollments and authentications over […]

AWS’s Amazon Connect recognized as a Leader in 2023 Forrester Wave for Contact Center as a Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Contact Center as a Service, Q1 2023 for the first time since Amazon Connect, our easy-to-use cloud contact center, was launched in 2017. We believe this leader placement reflects the rapid pace of innovation and continued success customers of all sizes see delivering […]

Best practices for Amazon Connect step-by-step guides

Traditionally, contact center agents required several disconnected applications to handle simple customer interactions. For example, this includes: contact control panels, customer profile information, knowledge articles, and wikis. Amazon Connect agent workspace offers a unified experience for contact center agents to access the tools they need to address customer calls effectively. Within the agent workspace, step-by-step […]

Getting started with step-by-step guides for Amazon Connect

Aug 27, 2024: This blog was updated for up-to-date product capabilities. Onboarding new contact center agents presents a common hurdle in training them to skillfully use their workspace. Agents initially require more effort to serve customers while working toward proficiency. With average annual attrition rates of 30-45%, enhancing agent productivity right away is a top […]

Routing contacts based on performance objectives in Amazon Connect: Agent Occupancy (part 2)

Enterprise contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to ensure a high-quality customer service. The methods used to route incoming contacts have a direct influence on these performance metrics. Amazon Connect makes it possible to route contacts based on objectives that are important to the business. Part 1 of this […]

Provide WhatsApp messaging as a channel with Amazon Connect

EDITOR NOTE: This blog is an example starter project designed to provide a demonstration and basis for builders to create their own solutions. It should not be considered Production-ready. If you plan to deploy and use this in a Production environment please review Using this in Production for additional guidance. If you need additional support […]

Web application for managing Amazon Connect contact center custom prompts

Introduction Amazon Connect contact center allows you to create dynamic voice prompt playback using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All the custom prompts are stored as audio files on Amazon S3. As the number of files increase, it becomes challenging to manage these files and audit changes. Business users would need access to AWS Management […]

Best practices: Managing call recordings in Amazon Connect

Providing excellent customer service is crucial to the success of any business in today’s highly competitive world. Contact centers are often one of the main points of interaction with customers, and call recordings are a valuable tool to help a business deliver the best customer experience possible. Providing a rich source of insightful information, they […]

Top 10 Amazon Connect blog posts of 2022

Over the course of 2022, we have seen organizations who use Amazon Connect, create innovative experiences on behalf of their customers. This includes leveraging machine learning capabilities and insightful analytics to identify trends and areas for improvement in customer service. In this blog post, we wanted to recap some of the frequently deployed and tested […]

Relive the excitement of re:invent 2022 with 3 Amazon Connect customer stories

In 2022, re:Invent returned to in-person gathering of over 50,000 attendees and exciting line-up of launches, keynotes, and sessions. Attendees witnessed new solutions, and delved deep into customer experience innovation, particularly with regards to Amazon Connect. This includes many new trailblazing capabilities including new chat analytics, Agent Workspace, and capacity planning tools. If you missed it, take […]