The document provides an overview of AWS IoT, including its message broker, rules engine, thing shadow, thing registry and security features, SDKs, and hardware program. It discusses how AWS IoT can help address challenges with connecting devices by providing secure communication, stream processing, and analytics capabilities. Key components like the message broker, rules engine, thing shadow, and security features are described. Pricing and examples of using AWS IoT are also summarized.

1. IoT on AWS
Dean Bryen
AWS Solutions Architect
@deanbryen
dean@amazon.com

2. What to Expect from the Session
• Overview of AWS IoT
• Message Broker
• Rules Engine
• Thing Shadow
• Thing Registry and Security
• Thing SDK
• AWS IoT Hardware Program

3. Things are Becoming Connected
Now
Not too long
from now Soon After
Source: Pretty much everyone

4. Challenges with Connected Things
• Connected does not necessarily mean useful
• Noise to Signal
• Event Driven Computing
• Stream Processing, Big Data and Analytics
• SECURITY!

5. AWS IoT
DEVICE SDK
Set of client libraries to
connect, authenticate and
exchange messages
MESSAGE BROKER
Communicate with devices via
MQTT and HTTP
AUTHENTICATION
Secure with mutual
authentication and encryption
RULES ENGINE
Transform messages
based on rules and
route to AWS Services
AWS Services
- - - - -
3P Services
THING SHADOW
Persistent thing state
during intermittent
connections
APPLICATIONS
AWS IoT API
THING REGISTRY
Identity and Management of
your things

6. AWS IoT Message Broker
MESSAGE BROKER
Communicate with devices via
MQTT and HTTP
AWS IoT API

7. AWS IoT Message Broker
Standard Protocol Support (no lock-in)
Millions of devices and apps can
connect over MQTT and HTTP 1.1
Long-lived bi-directional communication
Clients (Devices and Apps) can receive
commands and control signals from the
cloud
Secure by Default
Connect securely via X509 Certs and
TLS 1.2 Client Mutual Auth
Topic Based
Architecture
(lights/thing-2/color)

8. AWS IoT Rules Engine
RULES ENGINE
Transform messages
based on rules and
route to AWS Services
AWS IoT API

9. AWS IoT Rules Engine Basics
SELECT * FROM ‘things/thing-2/color’
WHERE color = ‘red’
Simple & Familiar Syntax
- SQL Statement to define topic filter
- Optional WHERE clause
- Advanced JSON support
Functions improve signal : noise
- String manipulation (regex support)
- Mathematical operations
- Context based helper functions
- Crypto support
- UUID, Timestamp, rand, etc.

10. AWS IoT Rules Engine
Complex Evaluations
Respond to the fleet, not just a single unit. Dozens of functions() available
Multiple / Simultaneous Actions
Sometimes a situation requires you to take many actions

11. AWS IoT Rules Engine
RULES ENGINE
Transform messages
based on rules and
route to AWS Services
AWS IoT API
AWS Services
- - - - -
3P Services

12. AWS IoT Rules Engine
Rules Engine evaluates inbound
messages published into AWS
IoT, transforms and delivers to the
appropriate endpoint based on
business rules.
External endpoints can be
reached via Lambda and Simple
Notification Service (SNS).
Invoke a Lambda function
Put object in an S3 bucket
Insert, Update, Read from
a DynamoDB table
Publish to an SNS Topic
or Endpoint
Publish to a Kinesis stream
Actions
Amazon Firehose
Republish to AWS IoT

13. AWS IoT Thing Shadow
AWS IoT API
THING SHADOW
Persistent thing state
during intermittent
connections

14. AWS IoT Thing Shadow

15. AWS IoT Shadow Flow
Shadow
Device SDK
1. Device Publishes Current State
2. Persist JSON Data Store
3. App requests device’s current state
4. App requests change the state
5. Device Shadow sync’s
updated state
6. Device Publishes Current State
7. Device Shadow confirms state change

16. AWS IoT Thing Shadow - Simple Yet Powerful
{
"state" : {
“desired" : {
"lights": { "color": "RED" },
"engine" : "ON"
},
"reported" : {
"lights" : { "color": "GREEN" },
"engine" : "ON"
},
"delta" : {
"lights" : { "color": "RED" }
} },
"version" : 10
}
Thing
Report its current state to one or multiple shadows
Retrieve its desired state from shadow
Mobile App
Set the desired state of a device
Get the last reported state of the device
Delete the shadow
Shadow
Shadow reports delta, desired and reported
states along with metadata and version

17. AWS IoT Shadow Topics (MQTT)
Thing SDK (C-SDK, JS-SDK)
makes it easy for you build shadow
functionality into your device so it
can automatically synchronize the
state with the device.
AWS IoT Thing Shadow
UPDATE: $aws/things/{thingName}/shadow/update
DELTA: $aws/things/{thingName}/shadow/update/delta
GET: $aws/things/{thingName}/shadow/get
DELETE: $aws/things/{thingName}/shadow/delete
Sensor Reported Desired Delta
LED1 RED YELLOW
LED1 =
Yellow
TEMP = 60F
ACCEL X=1,Y=5,Z=4 X=1,Y=5,Z=4
TEMP 83F 60F

18. AWS IoT Security and Authorization
AWS IoT API
AUTHENTICATION
Secure with mutual
authentication and encryption

19. One Service, Two Protocols
MQTT + Mutual Auth TLS AWS Auth + HTTPS
Server Auth TLS + Cert TLS + Cert
Client Auth TLS + Cert AWS API Keys
Confidentiality TLS TLS
Protocol MQTT HTTP
Identification AWS ARNs AWS ARNs
Authorization AWS Policy AWS Policy
NEW

20. Mutual Auth TLS

21. Security
Secure Communications with Things
- Single API call to CreateKeysAndCertificate()
- Client Generated CreateCertificateFromCSR(CSR)
Fine-grained Authorization for:
Thing Management
Pub/Sub Data Access
AWS Service Access
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": ["iot:Publish"],
"Resource":
["arn:aws:iot:us-east-
1:123456972007:topic/foo"]
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": ["iot:Subscribe"],
"Resource":
["arn:aws:iot:us-east-
1:123456972007:topicfilter/foo/bar/*"]
}]}

22. AWS IoT Thing Registry
AWS IoT API
THING REGISTRY
Identity and Management of
your things

23. Thing Registry
• key: value
• Firmware version
• Serial Numbers
• Support and Maintenance
• Reference Manual URL
• Part # reference
• Reference to external support system

24. AWS IoT – Device Management
S3 Holds Versioned Firmware Distributions
Organize and secure your firmware binaries in S3
Message Broker notifies groups of the fleet using Topic Patterns
Alert the fleet (or part of it) of the update, and send the URL to the S3 download
Firmware Update
Stored in S3
Publish to groups of devices
• Ability to update global
or within a Region
• Rules Engine keeps
state of updates and
tracks progress in a
DynamoDB Table
• Store Version in
Registry Entry

25. Get Started with AWS IoT Thing SDK
C-SDK
(Ideal for embedded
OS)
JS-SDK
(Ideal for Embedded
Linux Platforms)
Arduino Library
(Arduino Yun)
Mobile SDK
(Android and iOS)

26. Launching AWS IoT Hardware Program
The AWS IoT Hardware Program helps AWS
customers build connected products using
any hardware platform. IoT Hardware
Partners reduce the time to market and
improve customer experiences by providing
necessary tools, SDKs and sensors to
connect their devices to AWS.
The program is designed for partners that
provide hardware (semiconductors,
connectivity modules, sensors, actuators) to
customers and are interested in connecting
their hardware platform to AWS.

27. AWS IoT Launch Partners
IoT Systems Integrators
IoT Communication
IoT Management Platform
IoT Analytics PlatformIoT Operating Systems

28. Official IoT Starter Kits, Powered by AWS

29. AWS IoT Button
AWS IoT Button
- WIFI button for AWS IoT
- Claim the button in AWS Console
- Set up Rules and Actions
SELECT * FROM ‘button/press’

30. Pricing
Free Tier
- First 250,000 messages are free!
Normal Pricing
- $5 per Million messages received
- $5 per Million messages sent
100 sensors each publish one 400-byte
message per minute to AWS IoT. AWS IoT
then delivers all of the messages to one
other device, and also to DynamoDB.
Total cost: This example would incur
$21.50 monthly AWS IoT cost for
publishing of messages, plus $21.50 AWS
IoT cost per month for delivered
messages, for a total of $43.00 of AWS IoT

31. A Real World Example
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32. Thank You!
@deanbryen
dean@amazon.com