Amazon AWS IoT Cloud Service Now Generally Available

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Amazon (AMZN) has announced the general availability of its AWS Internet of Things (IoT) offering, which allows small devices to connect to the company’s cloud platform. Although AWS IoT was introduced as a beta offering back in October, Amazon said the full launch of the service is the company’s effort to make the cloud more IoT-friendly.

The new service was designed specifically for users with small devices running on limited system resources who still need to connect to the cloud, according to AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr. Toward that end, AWS IoT features a SQL-like programming interface and lightweight communication protocols…

It’s also designed to be highly scalable so that it can accommodate an ever-changing and ever-growing number of devices, to which the service assigns unique identifiers…

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