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Ecosystem

Future hooks, not future rewrites

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Add the next system on a hook that already exists. Do not scrape the CCP and do not fork the flow for every vendor.

Hooks you can adopt later: EventBridge contact events, the CTR stream, agent events, Kinesis Video, Customer Profiles events, Cases, Show view, data tables, External Tool, and the flow language JSON in your pipeline. Live Sync and Agentic CX are the 2026 hooks for guided and agentic experiences.

A hook has a schema and a permission. Write both down when you 'leave room' for a vendor. Room without a schema is a hope.

  • Prefer events over polling the real-time API.
  • Prefer attributes over asking the agent to retype.
  • Prefer a module for a policy that every future flow must share.
  • Re-read the quota before you promise a vendor a fan-out.

Number on this page: Hooks 10. Events, streams, views, tables, tools, modules

Confirm before relying. Prices, quotas, and exam names change. Use the source linked on this page.

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Future hooks, not future rewrites

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Worked example

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  1. Name the hook. Before the contract.
  2. Schema. Write it.
  3. Permission. Least privilege.
  4. Pilot. One team.

What usually goes wrong: A custom browser extension that clicks the CCP.

Quiz

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Question 1

Which term matches this description? Prefer a module for a policy that every future flow must share.

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Prefer a module for a policy that every future flow must share. The term is Future hooks, not future rewrites (3).

Connect Customer contact events - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10

Question 2

Which term matches this description? A supported place to attach the next system: a stream, an event, a block, or a workspace view. Build on a hook instead of scraping the CCP.

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A supported place to attach the next system: a stream, an event, a block, or a workspace view. Build on a hook instead of scraping the CCP. The term is Hook.

Connect Customer contact events - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10

Question 3

Which term matches this description? The key that ties the flow log, the CTR, the recording, the agent event, and the CRM activity. Lose it and the ecosystem cannot be audited.

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The key that ties the flow log, the CTR, the recording, the agent event, and the CRM activity. Lose it and the ecosystem cannot be audited. The term is ContactId join.

Integrate Amazon Connect with Amazon Kinesis | AWS re:Post community. last checked 2026-10

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Connect Customer contact events - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10

The prose is a study paraphrase. The link is the source of the facts.

Ecosystem

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Glossary

  • Start media streaming Sends live customer audio to Kinesis Video Streams for a third-party recorder or bot.
  • Screen recording Records the agent desktop. On the Basic price list it is 0.006 USD per minute.
  • Forecasting and agent scheduling The 4 Aug 2026 name for native WFM: forecast, capacity, schedules, and adherence.
  • Schedule adherence How closely an agent's actual status matched the published schedule. Native metrics appear after schedules are published. Third-party WFM reads agent events.

Mind map

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Sister technologies

Connect answers the contact. Workforce, quality, emergency location, and the system of record sit beside it, and they only stay honest if they share ContactId.

Config and troubleshooting

A custom browser extension that clicks the CCP.

Adherence needs agent events, not a person refreshing a report. ResourceType AGENT_EVENTS and StorageType KINESIS_STREAM is the hook. A second consumer should read the stream, not a second delivery on the instance.

InstanceStorageConfig

CloudFormation study snippet
Resources:
  AgentEvents:
    Type: AWS::Connect::InstanceStorageConfig
    Properties:
      InstanceArn: !GetAtt CampusInstance.Arn
      ResourceType: AGENT_EVENTS
      StorageType: KINESIS_STREAM
      KinesisStreamConfig:
        StreamArn: !GetAtt AgentStream.Arn

Integration map

Join records on ContactId. The integration map room lists the seams.

Cross-platform bridges

A CUCM calling search space is not a routing profile, but the profile is the closest idea of 'who can receive what'. A partition is not a Connect object. A UCCX CSQ and a UCCE skill group map to a queue. Precision steps map to routing criteria. A script, an Architect flow, and an Avaya vector map to a contact flow.

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Future hooks

Hooks you can adopt later: EventBridge contact events, the CTR stream, agent events, Kinesis Video, Customer Profiles events, Cases, Show view, data tables, External Tool, and the flow language JSON in your pipeline. Live Sync and Agentic CX are the 2026 hooks for guided and agentic experiences.

Sources and go deeper

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