The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
Tag: OTA
Design IoT jobs for rapid large scale device updates with advanced device group target patterns
Customer IoT applications require rapid over the air (OTA) updates to maintain the state of their IoT things. This becomes increasingly important as IoT fleets grow. Jobs for AWS IoT Device Management is a feature to push updates to targeted edge devices. Each job targets devices in static or dynamic AWS IoT thing groups. Static […]
How to perform secondary processor over-the-air updates with FreeRTOS
Many embedded architectures include a connectivity processor connected to one or more secondary processors that perform business logic. The ability to perform secondary processor over-the-air (OTA) updates is just as critical as updating the connectivity processor. This is because it allows for low-cost patching of bugs and security vulnerabilities as well as delivering new features […]
Building microcontroller-based IoT applications using HTTPS client in Amazon FreeRTOS
June 2026: This post was originally published in 2019 and referrs to “Amazon FreeRTOS,” which was rebranded to “FreeRTOS” in 2020. The core concepts remain valid, but note the following: When picking a version, use FreeRTOS 202411.00 or later with coreHTTP v3.1.1. TLS 1.3 is now supported and recommended (TLS 1.2 minimum). AWS IoT Device […]