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Amazon Connect

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in
4.5
Market Presence: Contact Center as a Service, Speech Analytics Platforms (Transitioning to Conversation Analytics Platforms)

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Connect

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Connect?

Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center software designed to facilitate customer engagement through voice and chat channels. The software enables businesses to configure contact flows, manage customer interactions, and integrate with other systems using APIs and built-in integrations. It offers features such as real-time and historical reporting, interactive voice response, automatic call distribution, and agent management tools. Amazon Connect addresses challenges related to scalability, flexibility, and cost management by allowing organizations to set up and modify their contact centers according to operational needs without on-premises infrastructure. The software is utilized to streamline customer service processes, improve efficiency, and centralize support operations.

Amazon Connect Pricing

Amazon Connect software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on usage metrics such as the number of minutes connected, phone numbers claimed, and additional features utilized including chat and automated speech recognition. Charges are incurred according to the services and resources consumed with no up-front fees or required long-term commitments.

Overall experience with Amazon Connect

Senior Network Engineer
500M - 1B USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“Enhance customer engagement and support efficiency with centralized support services and AI analytics.”

5.0
Mar 10, 2026
We are using Amazon Connect to facilitate better customer service delivery and optimize our support services and it has offered us with exceptional services. With Amazon Connect, we have been able to centralize our support services, making it easy for our customers and clients to reach out and get the assistance they need from our team. It has helped us engage easily with our customers and clients via multiple channels including chats, video and audio calls. Amazon Connect provides us with very reliable AI enhanced analytics and reporting features which provide us with useful insights on our performance in delivering support services and also ways in which we can optimize our customer engagement and support.
ENGINEERING MANAGER
50M - 250M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
CRITICAL

“Difficulty Connecting Internal Chatbot to Existing Knowledge Base Highlighted”

3.0
Dec 2, 2025
lack a connection to AWS sonic. We have our internal Chatbot, but it’s hard to connect to the existing knowledge base for that chat bot.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Connect Likes & Dislikes

Like

Amazon Connect provides us with multiple ways to connect with our customers and clients, allowing us to extend our support services across various channels like chats, emails, video and audio calls. It has very comprehensive data safety and security features which allows us to engage with our clients securely while keeping all the data we share safe and private. Amazon Connect has AI powered automation that has allowed us to automate some of our support operations like replying to chats and also doing follow-ups. It also offers incredible supervision tools and an interactive dashboard that helps us to monitor and track all our support services and ensure all requests are responded to as quickly as possible. Amazon Connect AI analytics provides us with insightful performance reports that guide us on how to optimize our support services and client engagements.

Like

I like the drag and drop feature of it.

Like

What we like the most is the ease of setup and scalability. The visual contact flow designer simplifies call routing logic without requiring extensive telephony expertise. Integration with services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, Amazon CloudWatch allow automation, conversational AI capabilities, and detailed monitoring. The pay-as-you-go pricing model and ability to quickly scale agents up or down make it suitable for dynamic workloads.

Dislike

There have been no issues at all with Amazon Connect. It has always performed as expected and the quality of services we get has been incredible, allowing us to offer quality support services. We have no dislikes towards Amazon Connect or any of its features.

Dislike

I dont like that it does not have the latest AWS sonic model and that I cannot use internal bedrock knowledge base.

Dislike

The main challenges are related to advanced customization and reporting. While the platform covers core contact center functionality well, more complex workflows or highly customized reporting may require additional AWS services or third-party tools. Cost visibility can also become challending when combining telephony charges with usage of supporting services like Lambda or storage.

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Amazon Connect Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(798 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
58%
4 Star
38%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Evaluation & Contracting

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4.4

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4.7

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  • Senior Network Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Enhance customer engagement and support efficiency with centralized support services and AI analytics.

    5.0
    Mar 10, 2026
    We are using Amazon Connect to facilitate better customer service delivery and optimize our support services and it has offered us with exceptional services. With Amazon Connect, we have been able to centralize our support services, making it easy for our customers and clients to reach out and get the assistance they need from our team. It has helped us engage easily with our customers and clients via multiple channels including chats, video and audio calls. Amazon Connect provides us with very reliable AI enhanced analytics and reporting features which provide us with useful insights on our performance in delivering support services and also ways in which we can optimize our customer engagement and support.
  • It Security & Risk Management Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Ease of Scalability in Amazon Connect Offset by Customization and Cost Visibility Issues

    4.0
    Mar 4, 2026
    My overall experience with Amazon Connect has been positive, particularly in enabling a scalable and flexible cloud-based contact center solution. The platform allowed us to move away from traditional on-premises telephony systems and adopt a more agile comsumption-based models. Deployment was relatively straightforward compared to legacy contact center platforms and integration within the broader AWS ecosystem made it easier to align with our existing cloud strategy.
  • Operations Manager
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Amazon Connect Enables Easy Cloud-Based Contact Centers With Basic Built-In Analytics

    4.0
    Mar 4, 2026
    My overall experience with Amazon Connect has been great. We use it to handle support. Because it's fully cloud-based and integrates natively with our existing AWS infrastructure, we are able to spin up a scalable contact center incredibly fast without managing any hardware
  • Business Development Associate
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Unmatched scalability and agility for modern contact centers

    5.0
    Mar 17, 2026
    Amazon Connect has significantly streamlined our contract center operations. The transition from a legacy on premise system to this cloud native solution allowed us to scale during peak hour without any legacy. Its integration with the braoder AWS ecosystem, particularly Lambda and Lex provides a level of customization that is hard to find elsewhere.
  • Chief Information Officer
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Amazon Connect Enables Automated Service Requests Without Human Agent Intervention

    5.0
    Oct 21, 2025
    The Amazon professional services team worked diligently to address SOW gaps to ensure we were successful in our implementation and launch of the product. They did this without increasing the overall cost of the project or delaying the delivery of the project.
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