Predictive analysis of data coming from many devices made easy by AWS IoT Core
Data collection is something that we very much rely on in our company. On top of that, we use a bunch of AWS products such as Lambda, S3, …
AWS IoT Core
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AWS IoT Core
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2022
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8.6
86%
IoT Device Management (17)
8.4
84%
IoT Data Management (17)
8.0
80%
IoT Integration (16)
8.0
80%
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$0.15
Cloud
Per Million Actions
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$1.00
Cloud
Per Million Messages
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Internet of Things
8.2
82%
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What is AWS IoT Core?
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices. It includes the Device Gateway and the Message Broker, which connect and process messages between IoT devices and the cloud. AWS IoT Core connects AWS and Amazon services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon QuickSight, and Alexa Voice Service to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure. The AWS IoT Device and Mobile SDKs include open-source libraries, developer guides with samples, and porting guides so that users can build innovative IoT products or solutions on your choice of hardware platforms.
AWS IoT Core Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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What is AWS IoT Core?
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices. It includes the Device Gateway and the Message Broker, which connect and process messages between IoT devices and the cloud. AWS IoT Core connects AWS and Amazon services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon QuickSight, and Alexa Voice Service to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure. The AWS IoT Device and Mobile SDKs include open-source libraries, developer guides with samples, and porting guides so that users can build innovative IoT products or solutions on your choice of hardware platforms.
What is AWS IoT Core's best feature?
Reviewers rate Device Security highest, with a score of 8.6.
Who uses AWS IoT Core?
The most common users of AWS IoT Core are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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- Encryption
- Real time data collection
- Ability to communicate with multiple protocols
- Lacks integration with other IoT tools
- Latency is something that can be improved
June 23, 2022
Predictive and Corrective Maintenance across tons of devices safely and securely on the go
- Real time communication and sending messages
- Ability to utilize a variety of communication protocols
- Filter, transform, and act upon device data on the fly, based on your defined business rules.
- Secure device connections and end to end encryption
- 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
January 12, 2022
AWS IoT Core Review on real use case
- Cloud IoT Core.
- Windows 10 IoT Core.
- Higher service quotas.
- More native connection.
- Support more data types.
January 10, 2022
One of the best Cloud IOT Solution Provider on AWS
- Can help send data to elastic cache very easily.
- SDK is available in all the mobile platform as well as web.
- MQTT is very fast way to transfer data from one place to another.
- Native dashboard is okay-ish.
- Only available with AWS services.
- Multiple protocols along with MQTT such as Kafka can be added.
January 09, 2022
AWS IoT core: Secure and reliable for IoT applications
- smart locks
- MQTT based application integration
- telemetric sensor communication
- integration with other IOT devices
- Sometimes we faced performance lags while temp key was issued but it was not accepted by locks
- steps to Integrate telemetric sensor is complex and can be improved
- Great Rules engine feature
- Can filter, process and route data
- Allows the product to interact with other automated services such as Lambda
- Connection metrics could improve
- SQL statements special syntax
- Documentation has some missing information that could improve the experience of using this product
January 07, 2022
AWS IoT core review
- Flexibility to select communication protocol based on existing IT setup
- Near real time collection and processing of data to send real time messages
- Better security in data transfer
- Performance lag in case of spike in data collection
- IoT rules engine can be extended to have flexibility to include multiple coding languages
- Complexity in terms of business logic design
January 07, 2022
Perfect IoT Companion - Best IoT tool in the Industry
- Helps us to test the functioning of devices, and you can create custom applications that communicate with your IoT devices and send data to cloud server.
- Makes it easy to use other Amazon services like Lambda and S3
- Its SDK is available on most of the platforms.
- High security standards during data transmission
- Monitoring and real-time dashboard features could be improved.
- Sometimes the server hangs and hence is not able to send data to cloud services.
- At very early stages, it might be difficult to understand the AWS IoT console.
- It integrates nicely with other AWS offerings
- It has a wide range of capabilities
- It has good integration with AI
- It would be great to have better integration with other IoT products outside of AWS
- It has been lagging in some of our applications. It's difficult to tell whether this is on AWS IoT or on our implementation
- It would be great to support a wider range of protocols
January 06, 2022
Inside View of AWS IoT Core
- Application interaction with connected devices.
- Processing data sent from connected devices.
- Tightly coupled with AWS cloud services.
- Need to extend it to other devices like Android based devices.
- Freezes a lot.
December 29, 2021
AWS IoT Core brings IoT to a new level!
- 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
- Tightly coupled with AWS cloud services.
- Generally one of the more expensive solutions on the market.
September 22, 2020
AWS IoT Core: A complete and powerful platform for the IoT industry
- 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
- Amazon IoT Core provides a lot of IoT services, so beginners need time to go through the documentation and Youtube videos.
- SQL-like Syntax in the IoT rules engine can be improved.
- Monitoring and and real-time dashboard features could be improved.
September 22, 2020
User Experience of AWS IoT Core
- It provides a good GUI interface for your IoT applications. so the data can be read in a more meaningful manner.
- It helps us to test the functioning of devices and you can create custom applications that communicate with your IoT devices and send data to cloud server.
- To develop such a type of application that reads your device data is a tedious work but AWS IoT makes it easy as it provides a custom tool that easily establishes a connection between your IoT devices and Cloud server.
- Performance needs to increase bit more.
- Sometime the server hangs and hence is not able to send data to cloud services.
- Need to extend it to other devices like Android based devices.
September 21, 2020
AWS IoT Core Review
- Secures data and interactions
- Processes and acts upon device data
- Connects devices to AWS Services and other devices
- Enabling applications to interact with offline devices
- Freezes up a lot
- Glitches sometimes
September 18, 2020
My AWS IoT Core Review
- Quickly retrieve data
- Efficiently analyze data to meet quality controls
- Available data in the cloud for all departments
- Set up of IoT system
- Firewall issues
July 20, 2019
Fast, scalable, secure IoT solution
- Simple SDK for multiple programming languages.
- Integrates well with other AWS services.
- Works well on multiple hardware devices.
- AWS IoT needs a better logging dashboard to view telemetry from active connected devices.
June 11, 2019
Impressive and better than Azure IoT
- The most amazing thing about this product is it is easy to set up and it has a wide range of integration with AWS's other services like DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Lambda, which helps a lot to create an end-to-end system.
- Its SDK is available on most of the platforms.
- At very early stages it might be difficult to understand the AWS IoT console.
- It takes time to understand the concepts.