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Appendix: Glossary

Term Definition
10DLC 10-digit long code. Registration for A2P SMS messaging. Requires an AWS Support ticket.
Amazon Connect message templates Amazon Connect feature used as the migration target for email and SMS message templates.
Amazon Pinpoint AWS customer engagement service reaching End of Support on October 30, 2026.
AppFlow AWS service used to ingest endpoint data from S3 into Amazon Connect Customer Profiles.
Bootstrap Tool command that deploys a CloudFormation stack with required infrastructure. Must run before any export or import step.
Contact Flow Amazon Connect resource that defines the sequence of actions in a customer interaction. Pinpoint journeys are imported as Contact Flows.
Customer Profiles Amazon Connect feature that stores customer data. Migration target for Pinpoint endpoints.
DIMENSIONAL segment A Pinpoint segment defined by attribute-based filters. The tool imports these segments into Customer Profiles.
EOS End of Support. Amazon Pinpoint reaches EOS on October 30, 2026.
Express Setup Tool command that provisions a production-ready Amazon Connect instance with required infrastructure.
IMPORT segment A Pinpoint segment created by uploading a CSV or JSON file. The tool does not import these segments.
Journey Builder Amazon Connect feature for creating multi-step, multi-channel customer journeys.
Migration state A JSON file stored in S3 at s3://<bucket>/instances/<instance-id>/state.json. Records ARN mappings for templates, segments, and endpoint attributes. Do not manually edit this file.
Node.js Runtime environment required to execute the migration tool. Version 22 or later is required.
Outbound Campaigns V2 Amazon Connect API for creating and managing outbound campaigns.
Preflight Tool command that validates the AWS environment before migration. Read-only; no resources are created.
Q_MESSAGE_TEMPLATES An Amazon Connect knowledge base integration type required for importing message templates. Must be configured on the Connect instance before running import-templates.
SCP Service Control Policy. An AWS Organizations policy that can restrict IAM permissions.