AWS IoT Core vs Xamarin

What users are saying about

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 34 reviews and ratings

Score 7 out of 10

Based on 46 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Internet of Things

8.2

AWS IoT Core

82%

Xamarin

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

AWS IoT Core ranks higher in 5/5 features

IoT Device Management

8.4

84%

17 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Device Security

8.6

86%

17 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

IoT Data Management

8.0

80%

17 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

IoT Analytics

8.2

82%

15 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

IoT Integration

8.0

80%

16 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

AWS IoT Core is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Xamarin is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Support Rating

AWS IoT Core

84%

17 Ratings

7.0

Xamarin

70%

12 Ratings

AWS IoT Core

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

Xamarin

100%

1 Rating

AWS IoT Core

88%

5 Ratings

10.0

Xamarin

100%

1 Rating

AWS IoT Core

80%

5 Ratings

10.0

Xamarin

100%

4 Ratings

AWS IoT Core

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

Xamarin

100%

2 Ratings

Pros

AWS IoT Core integrates power analytics and an AI solution for sensor data processing.
Great protocol support including HTTPs and MQTT required to connect resource constraint IoT devices to cloud
High security standards during data transmission
Scalability and a great user community

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Legal Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall.
The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful.
Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Internet Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Ability to integrate with Ethercalc software solution
Ability to introduce NFC toolchains and systems which could be utilized in iot modular gateway solutions like drones
Ability to reduce latency as the solution scales is very much needed
Hybrid solution which can integrate other existing iot solutions into AWS iot core

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Manu Gupta

Co-founder, Director

Aspiring InvestmentsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready.
iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up.
Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes.

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Jordan Max

Software Developer

NewserInternet, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$0.08 Per Million Minutes

AWS IoT Core Editions & Modules

Edition

Connectivity	$0.08¹
Messaging	$1.00²
Rules Engine	$0.15³

Per Million Minutes
Per Million Messages
Per Million Actions

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Xamarin Editions & Modules

Edition

Xamarin	Free

none

Additional Pricing Details

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Xamarin 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development.

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Duy Mai

IT Project Leader

North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

AWS IoT Core 8.8

Based on 5 answers

After adopting AWS IoT Core in our company it became clear that the whole platform was designed with usability in mind. It not only refers to IoT Core, but also applies to the remaining Amazon services. What we like the most is the fact that every phase from provisioning to maintaining provides great level of usability.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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Xamarin 10.0

Based on 1 answer

If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done

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Duy Mai

IT Project Leader

North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

AWS IoT Core 8.0

Based on 5 answers

I give it this rating because the support is always there if we need help, but they aren't always able to help us with our problems and sometimes have to transfer us to another support technician. So overall, the support for AWS IoT is pretty good and I am very satisfied with it.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Xamarin 10.0

Based on 4 answers

I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow

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Duy Mai

IT Project Leader

North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Xamarin 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities.

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Duy Mai

IT Project Leader

North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure IoT service provides more or less the same services as compared to AWS IoT core, however the costing of AWS lead us to continued usage of IoT core over Azure IoT services.Also, considering our existing technology stack is on AWS, it was a natural selection for better integration and ease of use.

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Consultant in Marketing

Marketing & Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job.

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David McCann

Senior Software Engineer

Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations FoundationComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Gives confidence to prototype iot solutions across lots of devices in little time
Ability to meet requirements for managing a variety of communication protocols
Learning iot analytics and visualization for faster insights enablement
Onboarding devices and managing quickly without building inhouse solutions

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Manu Gupta

Co-founder, Director

Aspiring InvestmentsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Saves development time and deliver fast.
Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed

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Florence Birgen

IT Manager

Calmens naturalsCosmetics, 11-50 employees

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AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

IoT Device Management

Device Security

IoT Data Management

IoT Analytics

IoT Integration

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Pros

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Cons

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

AWS IoT Core Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Xamarin Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Likelihood to Renew

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Usability

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Support Rating

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Implementation Rating

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Alternatives Considered

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

Return on Investment

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

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