For Amazon Connect TRANSFER and QUEUE_TRANSFER contacts the InitiationTimestamp is when the transfer was initiated, not when the customer first called.

Checked 2026-10-02

For TRANSFER and QUEUE_TRANSFER, this is when the transfer was initiated.
Vendor
Amazon Web Services
Product
Amazon Connect
Subsystem
Contact API data type
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-10-02
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). How contact center platforms define service level and abandon and handle time differently: source note contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts,
  title  = {How contact center platforms define service level and abandon and handle time differently: source note contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts},
  note   = {Source note contact-center-metric-definition-differences-aws-xfer-ts, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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