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Guidance for Connected Products with SimpleIOT on AWS

Overview

This Guidance helps you implement SimpleIOT, an intuitive system for creating cloud-connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices from the ground up. SimpleIOT helps you rapidly set up a fully functional serverless Internet of Things (IoT) framework in an AWS account. It supports rapid creation of complete, secure, connected devices that send and receive data to the cloud in near real-time.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

The majority of SimpleIOT services are serverless, lowering the operational overhead of maintaining the solution. SimpleIOT is also designed to abstract away common IoT management tasks.

Read the Operational Excellence whitepaper

SimpleIOT manages your IoT device security X.509 certificates and renewals and user logins by using JWT tokens in Amazon Cognito. By default, SimpleIOT encrypts all data end-to-end in transit and at rest.

Read the Security whitepaper

SimpleIOT uses many AWS managed services. Availability and reliability are managed on your behalf by AWS service teams (for example, Amazon RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront).

Read the Reliability whitepaper

The majority of SimpleIOT services are serverless, meaning you only use the compute necessary to handle the demand for your service.

Read the Performance Efficiency whitepaper

To save on costs, SimpleIOT doesn't log data in your Amazon S3 data lake unless programmed to do so.

Read the Cost Optimization whitepaper

The majority of SimpleIOT functionalities are implemented by using a serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway). Your resources are available only when needed and don't run constantly.

Read the Sustainability whitepaper

Additional information

For more information about SimpleIOT framework, visit SimpleIOT.

Disclaimer

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