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Amazon Connect vs NICE CXone comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 18, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.5
Amazon Connect offers a cost-effective, easy-to-use solution for globally distributed or hybrid workers, saving on call center expenses.
Sentiment score
5.7
NICE CXone users cited over $200,000 ROI in the first year, praising AWS management for reduced infrastructure handling.
NICE CXone saves time and resources due to its cloud-based nature, where infrastructure management is handled by AWS, reducing the need for me to manage it.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Amazon Connect's customer service is efficient, skilled, and varies by support plan, with Premium Support often praised.
Sentiment score
6.6
NICE CXone support is friendly and responsive, excelling in quick issue resolution despite occasional delays and time zone challenges.
If you need a limitation raising, within five days, you can consistently get that support.
Support is available via web, phone, and email based on incident priority.
We have our own technical account manager which provides us with substantial visibility.
When I faced an issue with reaching a Poland DID that was ported to NICE CXone, their support team resolved the problem immediately.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Amazon Connect is highly scalable, efficiently managing large user volumes and traffic, with cost efficiencies despite initial higher costs.
Sentiment score
6.8
NICE CXone is praised for scalability, smooth performance, easy configuration, and handling large user numbers effectively, with minimal concerns.
Amazon Connect is scalable and supports both small and high-volume contact centers with consistent performance.
I have migrated approximately 500 people to the system, and it can certainly support more users beyond this number.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Amazon Connect is praised for its 99.99% uptime, stability, quick issue resolution, and superior global resiliency features.
Sentiment score
6.7
NICE CXone is stable and reliable, with occasional minor issues, effectively resolved without impacting user productivity.
There have been no outages experienced so far.
We maintain a good working relationship with NICE CXone, and their technical support is effective.
While the system often operates without issues, there have been instances of reports involving VM resource congestion, WFM issues, and RT problems.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Connect should address pricing, integration, features, and scalability for better call management and improved customer service functionality.
NICE CXone needs interface improvements, better reporting, integration, customization, system stability, and enhanced training for user satisfaction.
Importing data from non-native Amazon Connect channels into workforce management.
The audio quality in NICE CXone has room for improvement, as I experience issues like diffused calls and crackling audio.
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Connect offers cost-efficient, scalable cloud solutions with variable costs, often cheaper than on-premise but requires careful cost planning.
NICE CXone's pricing varies by contract, requiring careful cost evaluation and challenging content extraction for data migration.
Rated four out of ten in terms of expense.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Connect provides scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud communication with seamless AWS integration, rich features, and intuitive cost-efficient interface.
NICE CXone enhances communication with WYSIWYG editing, omnichannel experience, real-time data, call routing, and customizable analytics.
It features an interactive voice recognition system, a drag-and-drop interface for contact flows, natural language processing through Amazon Lex, and robust analytics through Connect Lens.
The switch from using Avaya, which required connecting to a hard or soft phone, to using WebRTC via a web browser has significantly improved customer service efficiency.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Connect
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (1st)
NICE CXone
Ranking in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (3rd), IVR Systems (1st), Live Chat (2nd), Knowledge Management Software (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Connect is 21.6%, up from 20.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NICE CXone is 12.1%, up from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Rajni Kumar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good reliability, works well for hybrid environment, totally managed by Amazon but needs to integrate third-party CRM tools like Salesforce
My recommendation depends on your exact requirements. It involves the following aspects: * What's the size of your operation? * What specific purposes do you have in mind? * Could you elaborate on how you intend to use it? For example, if I have a call center with 30 people, and I primarily want to use it for call center operations. I wouldn't recommend Avaya or Cisco. I'd suggest considering either Amazon Connect or Salesforce Service Cloud (voice services). For Amazon Connect, I'd rate it a seven out of ten. There are a few features they still need to improve, particularly with Customer Profiles and case management. If these features become as robust as Salesforce, then Amazon Connect could be a complete contact center solution without the need to integrate third-party CRM tools like Salesforce.
James Arvidson - PeerSpot reviewer
A software that enables centers to operate more efficiently, increase the quality of every customer interaction, create new pathways to profit, and ensure ongoing customer-centric business improvemen
One of the best aspects of CXone is its omnichannel experience. It treats all contacts, whether phone, chat, email, or SMS, through the same system, allowing for consistent reporting and a true omnichannel experience. The platform is very flexible. You can customize it to do almost anything as long as it's based on logic, which has been incredibly valuable. In terms of analytics, CXone offers consistent, accessible data across all channels. In the past, different systems like Avaya for phones or separate platforms for chat and email made it hard to compare performance across channels. With CXone, you get the same data points across all interactions, making decision-making much easier. It also allows for deeper reporting, like IVR reporting, where you can see what options people choose and create custom KPIs for better insight.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect contact center management software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Genesys Cloud. Ge...
What do you like most about Amazon Connect?
Amazon Connect is really simple, straightforward, and very flexible.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Connect?
The pricing is rated ten due to its scalability and cost-effectiveness based on the level of usage. Several services are available to choose from, charging only when Lambda functions are triggered....
What needs improvement with NICE CXone?
The audio quality in NICE CXone has room for improvement, as I experience issues like diffused calls and crackling audio. Clearing cache and cookies from browsers often resolves these problems, but...
What is your primary use case for NICE CXone?
I use NICE CXone ( /products/nice-cxone-reviews ) for several purposes, such as addressing issues where calls are dropping or getting diffused. I also encounter situations where prompts are not pla...
What advice do you have for others considering NICE CXone?
Overall, I rate NICE CXone as an eight out of ten. I would recommend this tool to others in similar roles. There are areas for improvement, like the simplification of certain tools and the enhancem...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AWS Connect
NICE inContact, NICE CXone Workforce Optimization Pro, NICE CXOne WFO Pro, CXone Workforce Optimization, inContact Workforce Optimization, CallCopy, Discover, VPI Empower, Brand Embassy, goMoxie
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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