The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog

Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential for data acquisition and digital interaction in areas previously inaccessible at an unprecedented scale. The magnitude of this opportunity affects individuals, organizations, and governments in many different ways. In manufacturing, for example, many makers of existing products are racing to integrate connected features into their offerings […]

Update (2025): Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications is retiring in 2026. Customers should migrate workloads to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink or Flink Studio. Please see the migration guide for additional details and step-by-step instructions.  In response to massive technological changes that are transforming the global automotive industry, the AWS Solutions team […]

This blog is no longer relevant, please refer to this post for updated information and guidance.  Post by Marcos Ortiz, an AWS Solutions Architect The AWS IoT platform allows you to use substitution templates to augment the JSON data returned when a rule is triggered and AWS IoT performs a rule action. The syntax for a substitution template […]

Welcome to another installment in the Bites of IoT blog series. In this bite, we will use AWS CloudFormation, the AWS IoT rules engine, and AWS Lambda to automate the setup and teardown of two AWS IoT rules.  You can use the AWS IoT console to create and edit rules by hand, but in production you might want to […]

Background ClearScale was founded in 2011, with a focus on delivering best-of-breed cloud systems integration, application development, and managed services. We are an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with competencies in Migration, DevOps, Marketing & Commerce, Big Data, and Mobile. Our experienced engineers, architects, and developers are all certified or accredited by AWS. We have a […]

According to Gartner, the Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous potential for data generation across the roughly 21 billion endpoints expected to be in use in 2020(1). Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use. Its easy to get excited about this rapid growth and envisage a future where the digital world extends further into our […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going mainstream, which has long-lasting implications for how enterprises build and improve their products and services. As announced at re:Invent 2016, AWS is simplifying artificial intelligence (AI) adoption through three low-cost, cloud-based services built for AI-specific uses cases. Instead of creating proprietary algorithms, data models or machine learning techniques, all levels […]

Connectivity is a key element to evaluate when designing IoT systems as it will weigh heavily on the performance, capabilities, autonomy of battery powered objects, and cost of the overall solution. There is no one network that fits all scenarios which is why AWS partners with many different network providers. By partnering, you can then […]

Note: The code examples in this blog post were originally written for Python 2.7, which has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. Please ensure you use Python 3.x for this tutorial. Connected devices have found their way into a myriad of commercial and consumer applications. Industries have already moved, or are in the process […]

The AWS IoT platform enables you to connect your internet-enabled devices to the AWS cloud via MQTT/HTTP/Websockets protocol. Once connected, the devices can send data to MQTT topic(s). Data ingested on MQTT topics can be routed into AWS services (like Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Lambda etc.), by configuring rules in AWS IoT […]