Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) has made its networking software generally available to cloud customers . Greengrass is aimed at improving the networking 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 internet . The software launched in limited preview late last week and will roll out to other regions including Frankfurt , turkey 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.