The AWS IoT platform

The AWS Cloud provides lots of different services and solutions across many domains. Let's go through the IoT services provided by AWS:

Figure 5.1 – AWS services in the AWS console – Internet of Things and others

In Figure 5.1, we have deliberately used a screenshot of all AWS services, and not just those IoT services that are available in the AWS console at the time of writing this book, to stress the fact we mentioned earlier that when you select an IoT platform from one of the hyperscale cloud providers, you also get a huge set of other interesting services that you will need when building a complete E2E IoT solution.

For example, in Figure 5.1, you will see about 22 machine learning services and 15 analytic services; under database services, you will see all the different database options that you might need, and the same can be said under storage services, application integration, and so on.

At the time of...