Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides several different mechanisms that can help you to track and manage your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. One of the most basic things that you can do within the AWS cloud it to create an inventory of the IoT devices that your organization uses.
When you create a device inventory, what you are really doing is creating a collection of "things." Amazon defines "things" as digital representations of IoT devices. Although these things do not have any connectivity to the actual devices (at least not initially), they can be used to categorize devices in a way that makes the devices a bit easier to keep track of.
To get started, select IoT Device Management from the list of services (it's in the Internet of Things section). When you do, you will be taken into the AWS IoT console, with the Things tab selected. You can see what this looks like in Figure 1.
Continue reading: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2021/09/28/aws-manage-iot.aspx
When you create a device inventory, what you are really doing is creating a collection of "things." Amazon defines "things" as digital representations of IoT devices. Although these things do not have any connectivity to the actual devices (at least not initially), they can be used to categorize devices in a way that makes the devices a bit easier to keep track of.
To get started, select IoT Device Management from the list of services (it's in the Internet of Things section). When you do, you will be taken into the AWS IoT console, with the Things tab selected. You can see what this looks like in Figure 1.
Continue reading: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2021/09/28/aws-manage-iot.aspx
