Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its Greengrass software generally available to US customers. The company said it had been working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for several years on a program called “Project Veritas,” which allows users of Amazon’s cloud computing service to download The software launched in limited preview late last year and will roll out to other regions including Frankfurt, Sydney and APAC over the coming weeks.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its Greengrass software generally available to US customers. Greengrass is aimed at improving the computing capabilities of internet of things (IoT) devices; it allows customers to run code locally, at the edge of the network, using AWS' Lambda, thereby helping to prevent downtime from having to connect to the cloud. The software launched in limited preview late last year and will roll out to other regions including Frankfurt, Sydney and APAC over the coming weeks.