Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially launched it’s ‘Greengrass’ service that is expected to help customers handle processing of data from the field and communication from those devices to the AWS Cloud.
According to a post on its official blog, Chief Evangelist for AWS Jeff Barr said it had been found that many AWS customers wanted to collect and process data out in the field, where connectivity was often slow and sometimes either intermittent or unreliable. Greengrass allowed them to extend the AWS programming model to small, simple, field-based devices. It builds on AWS IoT and AWS Lambda, and supports access to the ever-increasing variety of services that are available in the AWS Cloud.
After a period of limited availibility, Greengrass will now be generally available in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. The Greengrass Core code runs on each device. It allows users to deploy and run Lambda applications on the device, supports local MQTT messaging across a secure network, and also ensures that conversations between devices and the Cloud are made across secure connections.
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