Amazon Web Services Launches AWS IoT Beta

At its annual re:Invent event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released AWS IoT Beta. The platform is suited for devices to connect to AWS offerings in a way that companies can store, process, analyze and act on volumes of data generated by global connected services.

In the beta version, users can connect devices to the IoT Device Gateway and set rules for how AWS IoT handles the data that is sent and actions performed with received data.

AWS IoT provides an SDK (software developer kit) to help users get started with the platform's API (application programming interface). A number of semiconductor manufacturers have also released starter kits to extend capabilities of AWS IoT.

“The promise of the Internet of Things is to make everyday products smarter for consumers, and for businesses to enable better, data-driven offerings that weren’t possible before. World-leading organizations like Philips, NASA JPL, and Sonos already use AWS services to support the back-end of their IoT applications,” said Marco Argenti, Vice President, Mobile and IoT, AWS. “Now, AWS IoT enables a whole ecosystem of manufacturers, service providers, and application developers to easily connect their products to the cloud at scale, take action on the data they collect, and create a new class of applications that interact with the physical world.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.