Quotas are a project plan

About five minutes of reading

The default numbers in the docs are for new accounts. Your account can be lower because defaults have changed over the years.

You must create the instance before you can ask for a raise. Small raises can be hours. Large ones can take three weeks. A worldwide raise can take months. The quota page says this plainly.

Some quotas are not adjustable: 50 agent statuses, 50 task templates, 5 primary attributes on a data table, the 90-day email expiry ceiling.

• Alarm at 80 percent.
• Account-level quotas and resource-level quotas raise differently.
• CLI 2.13.20 or newer is required for some resource-level quota calls.
• Campaign concurrency and external voice connectors start at 0.

Number on this page: Large raise 3 weeks. Plan on that, not on an hour

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

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1. Read applied quota. Not the doc default only.
2. Ask early. Before the port.
3. Alarm. At 80 percent.
4. Retest. After the raise lands.

What usually goes wrong: Discovering the call quota during the marketing launch.

Connect Customer service quotas - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10

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

Glossary

• Security profile What a user may do in the admin site and the CCP. Different from an IAM policy.
• IAM policy What an AWS principal may call. Connect, Profiles, Cases, and agent assist use different IAM prefixes.
• Service-linked role The role AWS creates so Connect can write to S3, CloudWatch, and other services you name.
• KMS key policy The key's own allow list. Recordings stay unreadable if the key does not trust the Connect role.

Mind map

Open the Security, quotas, price mind map

Sister technologies

A design that cannot name its IAM prefix, its key, and its quota will fail the first real week.

Config and troubleshooting

Discovering the call quota during the marketing launch.

A security profile is not an IAM policy. This statement allows two read actions on one instance ARN. Lambda's resource policy is a separate document.

Service authorization

Resources:
  OperatorPolicy:
    Type: AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy
    Properties:
      PolicyDocument:
        Version: "2012-10-17"
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Action:
              - connect:DescribeInstance
              - connect:ListQueues
            Resource: !GetAtt CampusInstance.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.

Open the mapping room

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.