AWS recommends anchoring either the phone numbers or the agents in the AWS Region where they are geographically located; if both are in a different Region from the instance, WebRTC round-trip network latency is extended above 500 ms and call quality may suffer.

Checked 2026-09-30

Vendor
Amazon Web Services
Product
Amazon Connect Customer
Subsystem
Region selection
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-30
Checked
2026-09-30

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Setting up an Amazon Connect instance: source note amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor,
  title  = {Setting up an Amazon Connect instance: source note amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor},
  note   = {Source note amazon-connect-instance-setup-latency-anchor, checked 2026-09-30}
}

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