AWS Services to Build and Upscale an IoT Architecture

There are billions of devices across homes, factories, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. The rapidly growing devices need a solution to connect them, collect, store, and analyze device data. 

AWS for IoT devices provides ready-built solutions and reference architecture to help the organizations quickly get started addressing the most common IoT use cases across industries.

Benefits of Implementing AWS IoT 

Broad and Deep

AWS offers elaborated and profound IoT services from the edge to the cloud infrastructure. To soften the IoT data, AWS is the only cloud vendor to bring data management and rich analytics together in a usable way. 

Multi-layered Security

Security is always a primary concern, thus AWS IoT includes preventive security mechanisms like encryption and access control to device data and service to continuously monitor and audit configuration.

Superior AI Integration

AWS allows you to create models in the cloud and deploy them on devices. With the help of AI and IoT together, devices become intelligent and run models two times faster compared to other offerings.

Proven at Scale 

AWS IoT is integrated with other AWS services in order to build complete solutions. AWS IoT is developed on secure and proven cloud architecture to scale on billions of devices and messages.

To build and upscale an IoT architecture, AWS IoT offers services for device software, connectivity & control, and analytics.

AWS IoT Services 

Device Software 

AWS IoT allows you to connect your devices efficiently and operate at the edge.

FreeRTOS

An open-source, real-time OS for microcontrollers for making slow and low power devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. FreeRTOS is built for ease of use and complete reliability. It's the benefits are -

• FreeRTOS includes a suitable kernel and a growing set of libraries.
• FreeRTOS accelerate time to market.
• FreeRTOS supports a broad ecosystem.
• Easily validate your FreeRTOS devices through the AWS IoT device tester. 

AWS IoT Greengrass

AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices to act locally on the data while still using cloud architecture for management, analytics, and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass, you can use familiar languages & programming models to create and test or validate your device software in the cloud and then deploy them to devices. Benefits of AWS IoT Greengrass are -

• Respond to local events in real-time
• Operate offline
• Simplified device programming with container support
• Secure communication
• Reduce the cost of running IoT applications

Connectivity & Control Service

AWS IoT gives you controlled and secure ways to manage your device straight from the cloud. 

AWS IoT Core

AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that connects devices easily and securely to interact with cloud applications and other devices. It can support, process, and route messages to the devices to AWS endpoints reliably and securely. 

You can easily use AWS services through AWS IoT Core such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Cloud Trail, 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 the infrastructure. 

AWS IoT Device Defender

To secure the fleet of IoT devices, you would need a fully managed service, which AWS IoT device defender gives you. This service continuously audits your IoT configurations to make sure that they are practicing proper security.

IoT Device Defender makes maintenance easy and enforces IoT configuration like ensuring device identity, authentication and authorizing devices, and encrypting device data.

AWS IoT Device Defender sends alert to your IoT configuration that might be at risk due to any gaps such as identity certificates shared on multiple devices or devices with a revoked identity certificate. 

You can continuously monitor security metrics from devices and AWS IoT Core for deviations from defining it as appropriate behavior for each device. 

AWS IoT Device Management

With millions and billions of IoT deployment on different devices, it becomes extremely challenging to track, monitor, and manage connected device fleets. However, with the need for tracking is essential, it is also essential to ensure the IoT devices are effectively functional and secure.  

Apart from security, monitoring health, detecting & troubleshooting problems, even remote, and manage software and firmware updates. 

Integrating AWS IoT Device Management makes it easy to register, organize, monitor, and manage remotely located IoT devices. You can register connected devices, either individually or in bulk, and manage permissions to allow them to remain secure. 

Device Management act as an agnostic to the type and OS of the device so you can manage devices from constrained microcontrollers to connected cars from the same service. Moreover, it also allows you to reduce the cost and effort of managing large ad diverse IoT device deployment.

Analytics Services 

To work with IoT data faster to extract value from the IoT data, you can look for analytical services such as 

• AWS IoT Analytics to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of data.
• AWS IoT SiteWise to make collection, organization, and analysis of industrial data easily & at scale.
• AWS IoT Events to easily detect and respond to events from a large number of IoT sensors & applications.
• AWS IoT Things Graphs to connect with different devices and cloud services easily to build IoT apps.

Conclusion -

Trusted and dedicated IoT Solution Providers can instigate AWS IoT services for broader, deeper, secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for businesses to upscale and build IoT infrastructure as suited.