AWS

Getting Started with AWS IoT Core

Amazon is great a creating cloud product. For years we have used AWS for websites, databases, machine learning, application development, and more. We currently utilize AWS’s IoT Core framework which is a great way to get started managing multiple connected devices.

The way it works is elegant but also fairly simple:

-Install a certificate on your device
-Device pings data to an AWS server
-You can route the data to a variety of services, or process it via a Lambda
-Security and device management is set up for you so that you can work on your hardware and software!

Amazon’s AWS IoT Core – Control Devices via MQQT

There’s always healthy debate amongst developer types about using Amazon’s tools. Or if it’s not Amazon it’s Microsoft. Sure, we’d all love to recreate all of our code from scratch.

But Amazon’s IoT Core framework is very useful when prototyping integrated systems. The reason is that the framework gives you a very simple client to put on a Raspberry Pi or other edge device so that you can instantly control it via the cloud via MQQT.

AWS IoT Core Framework
Via IoT Core devices can publish and subscribe to the cloud via MQTT (C) Amazon AWS