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Learning AWS IoT

You're reading from  Learning AWS IoT

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788396110
Pages 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Agus Kurniawan Agus Kurniawan
Profile icon Agus Kurniawan

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Getting Started with AWS IoT Connecting IoT Devices to AWS IoT Platform Optimizing IoT Computing Using AWS Greengrass Building Local AWS Lambda with AWS Greengrass Expanding IoT Capabilities with AWS IoT Button Visualizing AWS IoT Data Building Predictive Analytics for AWS IoT Securing AWS IoT Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Introducing AWS Greengrass


AWS Greengrass is one of the AWS services that enables you to build the AWS IoT server locally. This solution has an advantage, because our IoT devices should not connect to AWS IoT directly.

AWS Greengrass acts as a bridge or gateway for connected IoT devices. It offers AWS computation, such as AWS Lambda. We can deploy our own service over AWS Lambda on AWS Greengrass. AWS Greengrass can be implemented on a computer or device-based ARM CPU. All devices that are used for AWS Greengrass should be registered to AWS IoT. IoT devices have access to AWS Greengrass and AWS Greengrass needs to be configured in one group so that both the IoT devices and AWS Greengrass can communicate with each other.

A general overview of AWS Greengrass is depicted in the following figure. Each IoT device can connect to AWS Greengrass to perform computation without connecting to the AWS server. IoT devices and AWS Greengrass can only communicate within the Greengrass Group:

AWS Greengrass...

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