Amazon has joined the club of cloud service providers offering an IoT solution, via its Amazon Web Services division. The AWS IoT service was launched at Amazon's annual conference in Las Vegas, and will allow smart device companies to streamline their development by relying on Amazon's cloud infrastructure. In a blog post, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, said that his company is "excited about this new partnership" with AWS. Historically, security-focused development has been a tough sell for smart device developers, due to the cost and specialist knowledge requirements associated with a secure connected device ﻿implementation. However, with frequent IoT security breaches appearing in the media of late, many startups will likely jump at the chance to outsource this aspect of development. IBM and Microsoft, with its Azure platform both have competitive offerings in the IoT ﻿space, although Amazon﻿'s AWS still holds the largest cloud space. ﻿
Amazon has joined the club of cloud service providers offering an IoT solution, via its Amazon Web Services division. The AWS IoT service was launched at Amazon's annual conference in Las Vegas, and will allow smart device companies to streamline their development by relying on Amazon's cloud infrastructure. The platform enables its user's connected devices to "easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices" at scale. Historically, security-focused development has been a tough sell for smart device developers, due to the cost and specialist knowledge requirements associated with a secure connected device ﻿implementation. However, with frequent IoT security breaches appearing in the media of late, many startups will likely jump at the chance to outsource this aspect of development. IBM and Microsoft, with its Azure platform both have competitive offerings in the IoT ﻿space, although Amazon﻿'s AWS still holds the largest cloud space. ﻿