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AWS IoT Overview

What is AWS IoT?

AWS IoT is a cloud-based platform that connects devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices, it support devices and messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely.

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AWS IoT is a cloud-based platform that connects devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices, it support devices and messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely.


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Shabbir P.
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Shabbir P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Perfect cloud platform for IOT device management."
AWS IOT has brought in a new world of serverless cloud web server removing the dependencing of managing a server. More secured and reliable over t...
nageswararao o.
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nageswararao o.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"AWS IoT has considered most connectivity issues such that enabled features are simplified solution"
Easy configurations, Basic ingest, Scalability, Security and Flexible options enabled for customised solutions, framework of device management and ...
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diane b.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"User friendly and easy "
The ease to use this software was surprisingly welcomed . If all our programs ran like this thing would be much better
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Shabbir P.
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Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

AWS IOT has brought in a new world of serverless cloud web server removing the dependencing of managing a server.

More secured and reliable over traditional servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

Few things worth noting on the negative side is the cost.

It is very costly to buy annual web services.

The security protocols and management are very complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

Designing automations and IOT devices over WIFI and web made easy.

Dependency of traditional server was minimized and we hope to remove it completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nageswararao o.
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

Easy configurations, Basic ingest, Scalability, Security and Flexible options enabled for customised solutions, framework of device management and device defender.adoption and upgrade of features as per the customer feedback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

Limited protocols , Dependency of AWS iot on edge/gateway side,Hidden limitations and less explanation of optional fields usage like when and what to be recommended.Brdige configuration is not supporting latest MQTT specifications 5.0 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had enabled a quick custom web-based device management i.e monitoring and control application simple two tier and secured with all Managed services of AWS along with AWS IoT as backend service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhargav N.
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

- Easy-to-use SSL infrastructure

- Excellent SDK support for multiple platforms

- Scales well with the growing number of devices

- Out-of-the-box support for MQTT and other light-weight communication protocols

- Over The Air updates are very simple to configure and use

- Secure tunnelling if the devices are behind a network or a firewall

- Low-cost Alexa voice service integration

- Great fleet management dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

- It gets costly with time and no of devices

- Configuration can get complex at times

- SSL certificates rotation can be a pain

- One can easily lose visibility of the devices if proper tagging is not done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have integrated LoRaWAN with AWS IoT for long-range communication of simple text data. We have seen a lot of success in the PoC and were able to deploy it to production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

Aws is the best cloud development technology and provides n number of use cases for developers. Aws IoT is one of the best services to consume device data and process it for real-time use. Aws IoT store the SDK data and process it into a kineses stream, the managing of data was Iot good process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

Aws provides almost all kinds of valuable services, there are no significant dislikes in its technology, way of storing and processing the data is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use AWS IoT for the Location tracking platform SDK, It collects the real-time user location data and processes it to kineses. The main purpose is location data which collects from our SDK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajumon R.
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

AWS always provides the best services. coming to AWS IoT, it's very fast and reliable. the connection between the device and the server is very fast and did not face any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

The payment is a little bit high. but I know that they provide the best service. but, for normal personal users, they can reduce some amount. i mean, many peoples are developing IoT devices from their homes. they used it for limited personal use. many cheap IoT platforms are there. but most of them are not reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used many IoT platforms like Ubidots, Blynk etc.. but compare to AWS IoT, it's very reliable and we have confidence that there is no problem at all. i face connection issues many times at the time of using ubidots and Blynk. but, i never face any issues using AWS IoT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sandesh A.
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

Ease of configuration, usability, uptime has been the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

UI can be much better. Downtime tracking for specific devices can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were monitoring 1000s of sites across india and we were looking for reliable solution which AWS iOT code provided Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

For anyone who is starting with a new technology , the most important thing is amble documentation on the success provided and the interface of the service and how easy it is to create working models using the service. My experience with AWS IoT core had been fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

One of the things which I disliked while using the IoT services is the constant change in the UI of the AWS platform which makes it hard to get used to the process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS IoT makes it implementing IoT services simple and efficient. One of the best things about cloud providing IoT services is the ease of scalability and testing of the service which is created using the AWS IoT services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shashank S.
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Solutions Architect
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

AWS iot has device and their shadow with real time updates. It has a very good console to troubleshoot the issues as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

IOT rule engine should have basic if this then that configuration, where we should not be dependent on lambda function to have such logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS iot is solving the iot device management, communication and control so that it is easier to build iot platform for any industry. It is mostly plug and play Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sudhakar P.
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Solution Manager - Mission Critical Networks
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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

AWS Connectivity and control Services are some of best in business ,AWS IoT Core is great offering with Large number of protocol supported and a secure communication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

Flexibility is one of the downside from a User/Customer prespective , Every customer want more flexibility in of connectivity and device management to bring in their existing 3rd party vendors to intergate , which is not very much possible due to closed ecosystem of AWS ioT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Telecom Services to Customer who dont own any network like MVNO or MVNE

2. Solving the MDM ( mobile device management) for seamless app updates

3 M2M offering is big benefit from this enabler.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS IoT?

whenever starting a new technology they want to use all available options which are possible and provided documentation and offer a large number of protocols and security systems available which makes it easy for someone to develop what someone needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS IoT?

AWS works on improving its technology every day and updating its UI and other things which some people would find confusing after some time, Otherwise, AWS IoT is performing very nicely in terms of their competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS IoT solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is cloud technology that comprises approximately every required thing which could be required to get started and it is providing ease in scalability, AWS IoT allows you to use ML-AI in your systems to make them more powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.