This document provides an overview of Azure IoT/Edge technologies including:
- Market share figures for leading cloud providers AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud.
- Descriptions of Aliyun IoT, Link Edge, and its core functions for fast access, function computing, stream computing, local caching, device connectivity, and online updates.
- Discussions of Azure IoT Hub, IoT Edge, IoT modules, deployment models, SDKs, and gateway patterns for transparent, protocol translation, and identity translation gateways.
- An example of using the Azure IoT SDK to build an IoT Edge module that communicates with the Edge Hub.