Working with Cloud Computing to Power IoT Solutions

IoT devices obtain and process large amounts of data that needs to be stored, analyzed, and acted upon both in real time and near real time. This is where cloud computing comes in, as it is a powerful resource for providing the necessary flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness needed to handle the data that is provided by these devices. Cloud computing is the provision of computer system resources on demand, without manual active intervention by the user. Instead, it is mostly managed by a cloud vendor.

Cloud computing is especially popular because you don’t have to procure and maintain hardware; instead, the cloud vendor maintains that for you. These cloud services are also distributed over multiple locations, allowing you to avoid a single point of failure and have resilience in having multiple zones that store your data, which is critical when you have production environments that require continuous access to...