AWS IoT

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AWS IoT is Amazon’s complete IoT platform — device gateway, rules engine, IoT Greengrass for edge computing and IoT SiteWise for industrial plant.

AWS IoT Core enables millions of devices to connect securely via MQTT, HTTP and WebSockets. The IoT Rules Engine routes device data to other AWS services (DynamoDB, S3, Lambda). IoT Greengrass brings AWS Lambda functions onto edge devices. IoT Device Defender monitors security anomalies. IoT SiteWise handles industrial asset monitoring.

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AWS IoT at SW Business Solutions

At SW Business Solutions, AWS IoT forms the backend foundation for scalable IoT solutions. We use the platform to capture device data securely, process it and make it usable in real time - from the factory floor to smart building installations.

Use in customer projects

AWS IoT Core: a secure MQTT broker for thousands of device connections with mutual TLS authentication and rule-based routing
AWS IoT Greengrass: edge computing directly on gateways - pre-processing locally to reduce latency and bandwidth
Device Shadow: persistent device state in the cloud, even when the device is offline - ideal for control applications
AWS IoT Analytics: preparing and analysing raw sensor data for dashboards and ML models
Fleet management: OTA updates and remote configuration for large device estates

Why AWS IoT?

Scalability: from 10 to 10 million devices with no infrastructure effort
Security: certificate-based device authentication, IAM policies, VPC integration
An ecosystem: seamless integration into S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Timestream and SageMaker
A managed service: no MQTT broker of your own to run, no patch management
A rules engine: SQL-like filtering and forwarding of device messages without code

Typical project combinations

Combination	Use case
AWS IoT + LoRaWAN	Wide-area sensor networks (agriculture, smart city)
AWS IoT + Timestream	Time series data for machine monitoring
AWS IoT + Grafana	Live dashboards for production plant
AWS IoT + Lambda	Serverless reaction to device events

We accompany IoT projects from the architecture through connecting the devices to production operation.

Why AWS IoT?

Connects billions of devices securely via MQTT/HTTP

The IoT Rules Engine for serverless data processing

Greengrass for edge computing with no cloud latency

IoT Device Defender for security monitoring

Seamless AWS integration (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda)

A managed service — no IoT broker infrastructure

Use Cases for AWS IoT

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Smart factory

Connecting industrial machinery and sensors with AWS IoT SiteWise, plus real-time analytics.

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Fleet management

Managing and monitoring connected vehicles and device fleets via AWS IoT Core.

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Smart home

Connecting and controlling Alexa and smart home devices through AWS IoT Core.

Works well with

AWS

MQTT

Node.js

Python

Frequently Asked Questions about AWS IoT

AWS IoT or Azure IoT?

AWS IoT for: strong Lambda/serverless integration, lower prices, greater maturity. Azure IoT for: Microsoft environments, Azure Sphere for secure hardware, Windows IoT Enterprise. Google Cloud IoT has been discontinued. For new IoT projects we recommend AWS IoT Core.

What does AWS IoT Core cost?

Messaging: $1 per million messages (the first 250K a month are free). Connectivity: $0.08 per device per month for actively connected devices. Rules Engine: $0.15 per million executions. For 1,000 devices sending every 10 minutes: around $50 a month.