January 2026
Amazon Connect now supports tag-based access controls for cases
Amazon Connect now enables you to use tag-based access controls to define who can access specific cases. You can associate tags with case templates and configure security profiles to determine which users can access cases with those tags. For example, you can restrict access to fraud-related cases so that only agents in the fraud department can view or edit them.
Amazon Connect now simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to link related contacts such as email replies, call transfers, persistent chats, and queued callbacks to the same case so agents can view the complete customer journey and resolve issues faster. You can use flows to search for a case associated with a prior contact in the chain to follow-up contacts more easily.
In addition, you can now use flows to link a related contact to a case. For example, when you create a case via a Step-by-Step Guide, you can link that case to the main contact (e.g., voice, chat, email, or tasks) directly using flows.
Recurring overrides and visual calendar for hours of operation
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to manage contact center operating hours for recurring events like holidays, maintenance windows, and promotional periods, with a visual calendar that provides at-a-glance visibility by day, month, or year. You can set up recurring overrides that automatically take effect weekly, monthly, or every other Friday, and use them to provide customers with personalized experiences, all without having to manually revisit configurations. For example, every January 1st you can automatically greet customers with "Happy New Year!" and route them to a special holiday message before checking if agents are available, then on January 2nd your contact center automatically returns to normal operations.
Agent screen recording status tracking
Amazon Connect now offers customers the ability to view status of agent screen recordings in near real time in CloudWatch using Amazon EventBridge. With screen recording, supervisors can identify areas for agent coaching (e.g., non-compliance with business processes) by not only listening to customer calls or reviewing chat transcripts, but also watching agents' actions while handling a contact (i.e., a voice call, chat and task). Using Amazon EventBridge, customers can see status of each agent screen recording including success/failure, failure codes with description, installed client version, agent web browser version, agent operating system, screen recording start and end times from CloudWatch.
Customers can start using Amazon Connect screen recording status tracking by subscribing to Screen Recording Status Changed event type in Amazon EventBridge event bus.
Store nested JSON object and looping arrays
Amazon Connect now enables you to store and work with complex data structures in your flows, making it easy to build dynamic automated experiences that use rich information returned from your internal business systems. You can save complete data records, including nested JSON objects and lists, and reference specific elements within them, such as a particular order from a list of orders returned in JSON format.
Additionally, you can automatically loop through lists of items in your customer service flows, moving through each entry in sequence while tracking the current position in the loop. This allows you to easily access item-level details and present relevant information to end-customers. For example, a travel agency can retrieve all of a customer's itineraries in a single request and guide the caller through each booking to review or update their reservations. A bank can similarly walk customers through recent transactions one by one using data retrieved securely from its systems. These capabilities reduce the need for repeated calls to your business systems, simplify workflow design, and make it easier to deliver advanced automated experiences that adapt as your business requirements evolve.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/amazon-connect-release-notes.html
Amazon Lex launches configurable voice activity detection sensitivity
Amazon Lex now provides three VAD sensitivity levels that can be configured for each bot locale: Default, High, and Maximum. The Default setting is suitable for most environments with typical background noise levels. High is designed for environments with consistent but moderate noise levels, such as busy offices or retail spaces. Maximum provides the highest tolerance for very noisy environments such as manufacturing floors, construction sites, or outdoor locations with significant ambient noise. You can configure VAD sensitivity when creating or updating a bot locale in the Amazon Connect's Conversational AI designer.
This feature is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Connect and Lex operate.
Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to model, provision, and manage case resources as infrastructure as code. With this launch, administrators can create CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy and update their Cases configuration—such as templates, fields, and layouts—across Amazon Connect instances, reducing manual setup time and minimizing configuration errors.
Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town).
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-connect-cases-aws-cloudformation/
Amazon Connect now provides agent scheduling metrics in data lake
Amazon Connect now provides agent scheduling metrics in data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data. For example, after publishing schedules for next month, you can access interval level (15 minutes or 30 minutes) metrics such as forecasted headcount, scheduled headcount, and projected service level in Connect analytics data lake. You can view aggregated metrics for an entire business unit (forecast group) or broken down by specific demand segments (demand groups). You can then visualize this data in Amazon Quick Sight or another BI tool of your choice for further analysis, such as identifying periods of over or under-staffing. This eliminates the need for manual reviews of agent schedules thus improving productivity for schedulers and supervisors.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-connect-scheduling-metrics/
Amazon Connect can now automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
Amazon Connect can now provide managers with random samples of agent contacts for evaluation, so they can provide fair coaching feedback to agents. Managers can specify how many contacts they need to review per agent, as per union agreements, regulations, or internal guidelines. They then receive the required number of contacts randomly selected from the specified timeframe, for example, 3 contacts per agent from the last week. Additionally, managers can use new filters to ensure that the selected contacts are suitable for evaluation, such as those with audio or screen recordings, transcripts, and exclude previously evaluated contacts.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides
Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides now enables managers to build more dynamic and responsive guided experiences. Managers can create conditional user interfaces that adapt based on user interactions, making workflows more efficient. For example, managers can configure dropdown menus to show or hide fields, change default values, or adjust required fields based on the input in prior fields, creating tailored experiences for different scenarios.
In addition, Step-by-Step Guides can now automatically refresh data from Connect resources such as flow modules at specified intervals, ensuring agents always work with the most current information.
Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.
Amazon Connect now supports granular access controls for cases
Amazon Connect now enables you to apply tag-based access control to cases, giving administrators more control over who can view and manage case data. With this capability, you can associate tags with case templates and configure security profiles to control which users can access cases that include specific tags. For example, you can tag fraud-related cases and restrict access so that only users assigned to a fraud security profile can view or edit those cases, helping you enforce internal controls and data access policies.
Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-connect-cases-granular-access-controls/
December 2025
Amazon Connect launches WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, expanding on the WhatsApp Business messaging capabilities that already allow customers to contact your agents. You can now engage customers through proactive, automated campaigns on their preferred messaging platform, delivering timely communications such as appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations directly through WhatsApp. Setting up WhatsApp campaigns uses the same familiar Amazon Connect interface, where you can define your target audience, choose personalized message templates, schedule delivery times, and apply compliance guardrails, just as you do for SMS, voice, and email campaigns.
Previously, Outbound Campaigns supported SMS, email, and voice channels, while WhatsApp was available only for customers to initiate conversations with your agents. With WhatsApp support in Outbound Campaigns, you can now proactively reach customers through an additional messaging platform while maintaining a unified campaign management experience. You can personalize WhatsApp messages using real-time customer data, track delivery and engagement metrics, and manage communication frequency and timing to ensure compliance. This expansion provides greater flexibility to connect with customers on their preferred platforms while streamlining your omnichannel outreach strategy.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns is supported.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/connect-whatsapp-channel-outbound-campaigns/
AWS Support Center Console now supports screen sharing for troubleshooting support cases
AWS announces that AWS Support Center Console now support screen sharing for troubleshooting support cases. With this new feature, you can request a virtual meeting while in an active chat or call, join support calls with one click through a meeting bridge link. With the new virtual meetings, you will be able to share your screen during the meeting and maintain seamless access to case details for efficient troubleshooting. This enhancement simplifies your support experience by keeping all support interactions within the AWS Support Center console.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/support-center-console-screen-sharing/
Amazon Connect now supports multiple choice and date questions in evaluation forms
Amazon Connect provides two new evaluation question types to capture deeper insights on human and AI agent performance. Managers can now create questions that allow multiple answer selections, such as the products that the customer was interested in during a sales conversation. Additionally, managers can capture dates for customer and agent actions within evaluation forms. For example, you can record when a customer applied for a loan and when it was approved.
Amazon Quick Suite now supports memory for chat agents
We are announcing memory for chat agents in Amazon Quick Suite – a feature that allows users to get personalized responses based on their previous conversations. With this feature, Quick Suite remembers the preferences users specify in chat and generate responses that are tailored to them. Users can also view their inferred preferences and remove any memory they don’t want Quick chat agents to use.
Previously, chat users needed to repeat their preferences around response format, acronyms, dashboards, and integrations in every conversation. They also had to clarify ambiguous topics and entities in chat, increasing the tedious back and forth needed to get accurate and insightful responses. Memory addresses this pain point by remembering facts and details about users in a way that ensures responses provided to users continuously learn and improve. Users also control what Quick Suite remembers about them – all the memories are viewable and removable by users, and users have the choice to start chat in Private Mode in which conversations are not used to infer memories.
Memory in Quick Suite chat agents is available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-quick-suite-memory-chat-agents/
Amazon Connect launches additional details within real-time metric alerts
Amazon Connect alerts on real-time metrics now provide the specific agents, queues, flows, or routing profiles that exceeded thresholds and triggered the alert. This enables managers to respond faster to customer experience and operational issues by eliminating the need to manually investigate the root cause of the alert. For example, alerts on elevated queue wait times now include the exact queues affected, so managers can reassign agents to those queues. These detailed alerts can be sent through email, tasks, and Amazon EventBridge.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect expands automated agent performance evaluations to 5 additional languages
Amazon Connect now automates agent performance evaluations in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish using generative AI. Managers define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their preferred language. Performance evaluations also supports cross-language evaluation and can complete assessments in English, even when the conversation is in another language. This enables multilingual contact centers to use a standardized evaluation framework across languages.
This feature is supported in 8 AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).
November 2025
Amazon Connect now supports configuration of email address aliases
Amazon Connect now lets you configure aliases for email addresses, so customers see trusted identities when sending or receiving messages, helping maintain a consistent brand experience and simplify email management. For example, when forwarding a customer-facing address such as support@company.com to an address in Amazon Connect, you can configure an alias to ensure customers continue to see support@company.com as the sender.
Amazon Connect Email is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-email-address-aliases/
Amazon Connect Cases adds conditional field visibility and dependent options
Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditional field visibility and dependent field options, so you can simplify case layouts and ensure agents capture the right information faster. For example, you can show a Return Reason field only when the case involves a return, and limit Issue Type choices to hardware-related options when Issue Category is set to Hardware.
Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions.
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers campaign managers the ability to configure how long voice calls should ring—between a range of 15 and 60 seconds—before marking a call as “no answer” and moving to the next contact. Each contact also records when ringing began and ended for precise reporting and traceability.
When ring duration is static, businesses struggle to balance calling efficiency and customer reach. Calls that ring too briefly may miss customers who take longer to answer, while excessive ring times delay overall campaign pacing. This lack of control leads to inconsistent contact rates and reduced agent productivity.
With configurable ring time, campaign managers can tune dialing behavior to their audience for each campaign, use analytics to see exactly how long each call rang, and understand where connections were missed. This visibility helps identify patterns, refine calling strategies, and continuously improve campaign effectiveness.
With Amazon Connect outbound campaigns, companies pay-as-they-go for campaign processing and channel usage. This feature is available in AWS regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).
Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for voice and chat bots
Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for end-customer self-service interactions across voice and digital channels, helping you better understand and improve your customers' self-service experiences. This includes across PSTN/telephony, in-app and web-calling, web and mobile chat, SMS, WhatsApp Business messaging, and Apple Messages for Business.
With this launch, Connect now provides rich conversational analytics across both human-agent interactions and end-customer self-service interactions. You can now automatically analyze the quality of automated self-service interactions including customer sentiment, redact sensitive data, discover top contact drivers and themes, identify compliance risks, and proactively identify areas for improvement through easy-to-customize dashboards. Connect’s conversational analytics also enables you to use semantic matching rules to categorize interactions based on customer behavior, keywords, sentiment, or issue types, such as billing inquiries or agent escalation requests.
Amazon Connect is an AI-powered application that provides one seamless experience for your contact center customers, agents, and supervisors.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-conversational-analytics/
Amazon Connect now offers persistent agent connections for faster call handling
Amazon Connect now offers the ability to maintain an open communication channel between your agents and Amazon Connect, helping reduce the time it takes to establish a connection with a customer. Contact center administrators can configure an agent’s user profile to maintain a persistent connection after a conversation ends, allowing for subsequent calls to connect faster. Amazon Connect persistent agent connection makes it easier to support compliance requirements with telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for outbound campaigns’ calling by reducing the time it takes for a customer to connect with your agents.
Amazon Connect persistent connection is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered, and there is no additional charge beyond standard pricing for the Amazon Connect service usage and associated telephony charges.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-persistent-agent-connections/
Amazon Connect now enables agents to send follow-up replies to email contacts
Amazon Connect now allows agents to send follow-up replies to email contacts, making it easier to share additional information or continue assisting customers without starting a new thread. This capability preserves the full conversation history, helping agents maintain context and deliver consistent, seamless support.
Amazon Connect Email is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
Amazon Connect launches monitoring of contacts queued for callback
Amazon Connect now provides you with the ability to monitor which contacts are queued for callback. This feature enables you to search for contacts queued for callback and view additional details such as the customer’s phone number and duration of being queued within the Connect UI and APIs. You can now pro-actively route contacts to agents that are at risk of exceeding the callback timelines communicated to customers. Businesses can also identify customers that have already successfully connected with agents, and clear them from the callback queue to remove duplicative work.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect now supports multi skill agent scheduling
Amazon Connect now enables you to optimize scheduling based on agent’s multiple specialized skills. You can now maximize agent utilization across multiple dimensions such as departments, languages, and customer tiers by intelligently matching agents with multiple skills to forecasted demand. You can now also preserve multi-skilled agents for high-value interactions when needed most. For example, bilingual agents can now be strategically scheduled to cover peak periods for high-value French language queues that frequently experience staffing shortages, while handling general inquiries during off-peak times.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-multi-skill-agent-scheduling/
Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
Amazon Connect now provides metrics that measure completion of agent performance evaluations, improving manager productivity and evaluation consistency. Businesses can monitor if the required number of evaluations for their agents have been completed, ensuring compliance with internal policies (e.g., complete 5 evaluations per agent per month), regulatory requirements, and labor union agreements. Additionally, businesses can analyze evaluation scoring patterns across different managers, to identify opportunities to improve evaluation consistency and accuracy. These insights are available in real-time through analytics dashboards in the Connect UI, and APIs.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect now supports creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs
Amazon Connect now supports creation of custom metrics, enabling contact center supervisors to analyze tailored performance measurements without requiring technical skills. This feature provides a simple, no-code interface for performing mathematical operations (e.g., addition, subtraction, sum, average) on existing Connect data to build metrics that align with your organization's specific business requirements. Custom metrics are available to use in the dashboards and APIs.
With custom metrics, you can track performance in ways that matter most to your business. For example, create average handle time metrics for premium versus standard customer segments, calculate total agent time on outbound calls by product line, or measure queue performance filtered by contact type such as callbacks versus incoming calls.
This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-metric-customization/
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports visual journey builder, a new feature that lets you create multi-step, multi-channel customer engagements directly in the Amazon Connect console. You can design end-to-end engagement experiences that combine voice, SMS, email, and WhatsApp interactions to reach customers proactively and reduce inbound contact volume.
Outbound Campaigns help you automate personalized communication flows based on customer behavior or time-based triggers. For example, you can send an appointment reminder by SMS, follow up with a voice call if the customer does not respond, and send a confirmation email once the appointment is booked. You can also configure steps in the journey builder that offer customers the option to connect with a live agent through Amazon Connect when additional support is needed. You can use existing Amazon Connect Flow integrations, AI capabilities, and customer data from Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to tailor each interaction. This helps contact centers improve engagement rates, reduce manual effort, and deliver more consistent customer experiences.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns is supported.
Amazon Connect launches automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases
Amazon Connect now allows you to automate email responses and agent routing logic using keyword and phrase conditions, helping organizations increase self-service, reduce manual handling time, and improve routing accuracy. For example, if a customer sends an email asking if a certain product is in stock, or is checking on their shipment status, an automated response can be sent without involving an agent.
To enable this feature, add the Get stored content block to your flows and use accompanying flow blocks such as Check contact attributes and Send message to configure automated email responses and routing.
Amazon Connect email is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-connect-automated-email-responses/
October 2025
Amazon Connect now supports agent screen recording for ChromeOS
Amazon Connect now provides screen recording for agents using ChromeOS devices making it easier for you to help improve their performance. With screen recording, you can identify areas for agent coaching (e.g., long contact handle duration or non-compliance with business processes) by not only listening to customer calls or reviewing chat transcripts, but also watching agents’ actions while handling a contact (i.e., a voice call, chat, or task).
Screen recording on ChromeOS is available in all the AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is already available.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-connect-agent-screen-recording-chromeos/
Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations
Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations to your specific needs. Supervisors and managers can define time thresholds for when a contact is considered to meet service level standards and select which contact outcomes to include in the calculation. For example, managers can choose to count callback contacts, exclude contacts transferred out while waiting in queue, and exclude short abandons using a configurable time threshold. Customization of service level calculation is available from the metric configuration section on the analytics dashboards.
With this feature supervisors and managers can now create a service level metric calculation that better aligns with their business operations. With a customized view of service level performance, operations managers can assess how effectively they have met their service standards.
This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect launches new case APIs to link related cases, add custom related items, and search across them
Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically enrich case data by linking related cases, attaching custom related items, and searching across them, so agents have the full context they need to resolve issues faster. For example, an airline can link all customer cases tied to a single flight cancellation to coordinate rebookings and send proactive updates, while a retailer can attach order and shipment details to a refund request to deliver faster resolutions and keep customers informed.
Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-connect-cases-api-link-search/
Amazon Connect now supports agent schedule adherence notifications
Amazon Connect now supports agent schedule adherence notifications, making it easier for you to proactively identify when agents aren't adhering to their scheduled activities. You can define rules to automatically send email or text notifications (via EventBridge) to supervisors when agents exceed adherence thresholds. For example, if agent adherence drops below 85% in a trailing 15-minute window, supervisors can receive an email alert. These automated notifications eliminate the need for continuous dashboard monitoring and enable proactive intervention before service levels decline, improving both supervisor productivity and customer satisfaction.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-connect-agent-adherence-notifications/
Amazon Connect now provides configurable thresholds for schedule adherence
Amazon Connect now provides configurable thresholds for schedule adherence, giving you more flexibility in how you track agent performance. You can define thresholds for how early or late agents start or end their shifts, as well as for individual activities. For example, agents can start their shift 5 minutes early and end 10 minutes late, or end their breaks 3 minutes late, without negatively impacting their adherence scores. You can further customize these thresholds for individual teams. For example, teams that handle contacts with long handle times can be given more flexibility in when they start their breaks. This launch enables managers to focus on true adherence violations and eliminates the impact of minor schedule deviations on agent performance, thus improving manager productivity and agent satisfaction.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available.
Amazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations to analyze specific situations identified during initial evaluations. For example, when an initial customer service evaluation detects customer interest in a product, Amazon Connect can automatically trigger a follow-up evaluation focused on the agent's sales performance. This enables managers to maintain consistent evaluation standards across agent cohorts and over time, while capturing deeper insights on specific scenarios such as sales opportunities, escalations, and other critical interaction moments.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect now supports threaded views and includes conversation history in agent replies
Amazon Connect now includes the conversation history in agent replies and introduces threaded views of email exchanges, making it easier for both agents and customers to maintain context and continuity across interactions. This enhancement provides a more natural and familiar email experience for both agents and customers.
Amazon Connect Email is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions for conversation recordings and transcripts
Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions to access conversation recordings and transcripts in the UI, giving administrators greater flexibility and security control. Contact center administrators can now separately configure access to recordings and transcripts, allowing users to listen to calls while preventing unauthorized copying of transcripts. The system also provides flexible download controls, enabling users to download redacted recordings while restricting downloads of unredacted versions. Administrators can also create sophisticated permission scenarios, providing access to redacted recordings of sensitive conversations while granting unredacted recording access for other conversations.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns supports preview dialing for greater agent control
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers a preview dialing mode that gives agents more context about a customer before placing a call. Agents can see key customer information—such as name, account balance, and prior interactions—and choose the right moment to call. Campaign managers can tailor preview settings and monitor performance through new dashboards that bring visibility to agent behavior, campaign outcomes, and customer engagement trends.
Without proper context, agents struggle to personalize interactions, leading to low customer engagement and poor experiences. Additionally, businesses can face steep regulatory penalties under laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) or the UK Office of Communications (OFCOM) for delays in customer-agent connection.
With preview dialing, campaign managers can define review time limits and optionally enable contact removal from campaigns. During preview, agents see a countdown timer alongside customer data and can initiate calls at any moment. Analytics reveal performance patterns—such as average preview time or discard volume—giving managers data to optimize strategy and coach teams effectively. By reserving an agent prior to placing the call, companies can support compliance with regulations while bringing precision to outbound calling, improving both customer connection and operational control.
With Amazon Connect outbound campaigns, companies pay-as-they-go for campaign processing and channel usage. Preview dialing is available in AWS regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).
Amazon Connect now supports scheduling of individual agents
Amazon Connect now supports scheduling of individual agents, giving you more flexibility in scheduling your workforce. For example, when onboarding 100 new agents to a business unit with schedules already published for next two months, you can create schedules for only those new agents and automatically merge them with existing schedules. This eliminates the need for workarounds such as manually copying schedules from existing agents to new agents or regenerating schedules for entire business unit, thus improving manager productivity and operational efficiency.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-connect-scheduling-individual-agents/
September 2025
Amazon Connect adds detailed disconnect reasons for improved call troubleshooting
Amazon Connect now offers expanded disconnect reasons to help you better understand why outbound calls failed to connect in your contact center. These enhanced reasons are based on standard telecom error codes that provide deeper call insights and enable faster troubleshooting, reducing the need to create support tickets to understand failure reasons. You'll benefit from improved reporting capabilities with granular disconnection data and real-time visibility through Contact Trace Records, allowing you to monitor call disconnection patterns more effectively.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/amazon-connect-expanded-disconnect-reasons/
Amazon Connect launches the ability to search contacts using agent hierarchy filters
Amazon Connect now provides you with agent hierarchy filters on the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. This launch enables contact center leaders to drill-down into their hierarchy to review contacts handled by specific contact center sites, departments or teams, for assessing contact quality or agent performance. This also enables centralized teams within contact centers, such as quality management and regulatory compliance, to efficiently locate and review contacts handled by specific teams or departments, streamlining their workflow for performance evaluation and compliance auditing.
This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
Amazon Connect Cases now supports date range filters in the case list view
Amazon Connect Cases now supports filtering by date ranges in the case list view, enabling contact center managers and agents to efficiently manage their case workloads. For example, users can filter cases created in the last 30 days for monthly reporting, view cases modified in the last 24 hours to monitor recent activity, or surface cases with potential SLA breaches in the next 2 days to help prevent violations.
Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/amazon-connect-cases-date-range-filters/
Amazon Lex provides generative AI based enhanced natural language understanding in eight new languages
Amazon Lex now allows you to leverage large language models (LLMs) to improve the natural language understanding of your deterministic conversational AI bots in eight new languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, and German. With this capability, your voice- and chat-bots can better handle complex utterances, maintain accuracy despite spelling errors, and extract key information from verbose inputs to fulfill the customer’s request. For example, a customer could say ‘Hi I want to book a flight for my wife, my two kids and myself’, and the LLM will properly identify to book flight tickets for four people.
This feature is available in 10 commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available: Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central).
Amazon Lex provides enhanced confirmation and currency built-in slots to 10 additional languages
Amazon Lex now provides support for confirmation and currency slot types in 10 additional languages: Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. Built-in slots help you build more natural and efficient conversations by understanding synonyms of what you user says and resolving those inputs to a standard format. The confirmation slot helps understand various expressions of user acknowledgement and converts them into ‘Yes’, ‘No’, “Don’t know’‘, or ‘Maybe’. The currency slot helps identify currency and represents the input in a structured way. For example, when a user says “nope” or “absolutely not”, the confirmation slot resolves to ‘No’ or when the user says “1 dollar’, the currency slot resolves it to ”USD 1.00“. These built-in slots help you build more natural and efficient conversational experiences.
This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates.
Amazon Connect flow designer now supports analytics mode
Amazon Connect now offers new enhanced analytics in the drag-and-drop flow designer that help you make data-driven decisions when building and optimizing your flows. Amazon Connect flows allow you to create end-to-end self-service and automated customer experiences such as interactive voice response (IVR), step-by-step guides, and back office processes and tasks. With this launch, you can now view aggregate metrics on how customers move through each step in the flow including where they run into errors or abandon the experience. For example, you can see how many conversational AI interactions result in transfers to agent queues or when customers end up in the wrong queue because an error in the flow configuration. These new capabilities help you identify behavioral patterns and evaluate root causes, allowing you to deliver better outcomes for customers.
This new capability is included with Amazon Connect (with unlimited AI) pricing.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/amazon-connect-flow-designer-analytics-mode/
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides sensitive data redaction in 7 additional languages
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides sensitive data redaction from voice and chat conversational analytics in French (France, Canada), Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Italian, German, and Spanish (Spain). Automatic redaction of sensitive data redaction helps you protect your customer's privacy by removing personally identifiable information (PII), financial account numbers and PINs, and Internet access details (URLs, usernames, passwords) from conversation transcripts and audio files. You can choose to redact selected or all sensitive data entities, and whether they are replaced with a generic placeholder (e.g., [PII]) or an entity-specific placeholder (e.g., [NAME]) to indicate the type of information redacted.
Amazon Connect is an AI-powered application that provides one seamless experience for your contact center customers and users. Contact Lens provides conversational analytics that enable you to monitor, measure, and continuously improve contact quality and agent performance for a better overall customer experience.
Sensitive data redaction is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available.
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| Current Version (v. 37) | Feb 02, 2026 08:04 | Darren Marr |
| v. 39 | Mar 02, 2026 06:58 | Darren Marr |
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| v. 26 | Jul 01, 2025 06:56 | Darren Marr |
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| v. 22 | May 01, 2025 03:17 | Darren Marr |
| v. 21 | May 01, 2025 03:07 | Darren Marr |
| v. 20 | Apr 25, 2025 05:48 | Darren Marr |
| v. 19 | Mar 31, 2025 03:53 | Darren Marr |
| v. 18 | Feb 28, 2025 04:43 | Darren Marr |
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| v. 16 | Feb 03, 2025 03:27 | Darren Marr |
| v. 15 | Feb 03, 2025 03:25 | Darren Marr |
| v. 14 | Jan 02, 2025 03:19 | Darren Marr |
| v. 13 | Dec 02, 2024 04:50 | Darren Marr |
| v. 12 | Dec 02, 2024 04:49 | Darren Marr |
| v. 11 | Oct 31, 2024 09:50 | Darren Marr |
| v. 10 | Oct 31, 2024 08:41 | Darren Marr |
| v. 9 | Sep 03, 2024 03:01 | Darren Marr |
| v. 8 | Sep 02, 2024 05:36 | Darren Marr |
| v. 7 | Sep 02, 2024 05:24 | Darren Marr |
| v. 6 | Aug 26, 2024 05:09 | Darren Marr |
| v. 5 | Aug 01, 2024 06:07 | Darren Marr |
| v. 4 | Aug 01, 2024 03:32 | Darren Marr |
| v. 3 | Jul 09, 2024 06:31 | Darren Marr |
| v. 2 | Jul 09, 2024 05:48 | Darren Marr |
| v. 1 | Jul 09, 2024 05:36 | Darren Marr |