AWS IoT Core vs Xamarin | TrustRadius

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 41 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

IoT Device Management

Device Security

IoT Data Management

IoT Analytics

IoT Integration

Pros

Makes it easy to use other Amazon services like Lambda and S3
Regular updates bring new features to the platform
It is exceptionally well documented

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Internet Company, 10,001+ 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

At very early stages it might be difficult to understand the AWS IoT console.
It takes time to understand the concepts.

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Software Engineer

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 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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Software Developer

NewserInternet, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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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IT Project Leader

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

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Usability

AWS IoT Core 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Easy to use. That's the main goal and this nails it. From the user perspective, this is as intuitive as you would expect from an Amazon product. Easily connect and host without a bunch of training and hand-holding. Change management is always part of the process but this was about as smooth as I have seen.

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Analyst in Other

Government Administration Company, 201-500 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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IT Project Leader

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

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Support Rating

AWS IoT Core 8.2

Based on 6 answers

Of course it saves our company resources and time and to the tedious job of sending our device data to Cloud server. Lots of devices communicate with Cloud using the single tool AWS IoT.

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prabhakar srivastava

Programmer Analyst II

Ivy TechnologyComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Xamarin 10.0

Based on 2 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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IT Project Leader

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

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Xamarin 10.0

Based on 1 answer

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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IT Project Leader

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

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Alternatives Considered

AWS IoT Core is faster, easier, cheaper, and enjoyed by our employees more than Microsoft Azure. We selected AWS IoT because we saw an advertisement for it and have used it ever since. We will continue to use it as long as it is around or until we find one that is better.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 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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Senior Software Engineer

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

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Return on Investment

AWS IoT Core has lowered the cost of device development and data management.
Data analytics have become easy with power AI and ML algorithms.
Overall, the platform is highly secure so data security is not an issue now.

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Consultant in Engineering

Legal Services Company, 1001-5000 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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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?

No

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

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Xamarin Editions & Modules

Edition

Xamarin	Free

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Rating Summary

AWS IoT Core

Xamarin

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Xamarin

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Xamarin

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