Services to work with for IoT

In this section, we will look at the different services that are used within AWS for IoT and talk through a practical exercise that will show you how you can utilize some of them to make a simple IoT system.

There are a number of services in AWS that make working with IoT within it very powerful. In this chapter, we will highlight six of those services and show how you can use them within your own deployments.

Identity Access Manager (IAM)

Identity Access Manager (IAM) is a service that helps users/organizations control access to their AWS resources. This enables them to create and manage users and groups and define permissions for them to access AWS resources such as S3 buckets, EC2 instances, or Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases. An S3 bucket is a storage solution offered by AWS, designed to hold vast amounts of data in a scalable, secure, and web-accessible environment. RDS is also an AWS offering that provides managed relational...