Amazon Jumps Into Internet Of Things Frenzy With New Cloud Platform For Devices Like Cars
October 8, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Alex Konrad.
As more devices from cars to thermometers and light bulbs get connected to the Internet, Amazon is the latest tech company to make its bid to play host. Amazon Web Services, the Seattle-based company’s cloud computing unit it launched in 2006, has become an increasingly strategic business for Amazon, with more than 1 million businesses signed up as customers and revenue of $7.3 billion.
To keep up that growth, AWS is increasingly looking to work with companies not traditionally top-of-mind as potential users of web services, unlike the startups and tech companies that host much of their business online through Amazon’s cloud. On Thursday, Amazon announced the AWS IoT, a platform for processing and using data from Internet-connected devices…
As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced the product onstage at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, he brought out two initial partners to demonstrate the type of company that AWS IoT is supposed to help: automaker BMW and agriculture manufacturer John Deere…
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