An Amazon Connect contact restricted to a preferred agent stays restricted until that routing step expires, even if the agent is offline, busy, in a nonproductive status or deleted.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
Amazon Web Services
Product
Amazon Connect
Subsystem
routing criteria
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). AI predictive and affinity routing in contact centers: source note predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold,
  title  = {AI predictive and affinity routing in contact centers: source note predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold},
  note   = {Source note predictive-routing-ai-connect-preferred-agent-hold, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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