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AWS Greengrass

Local compute, messaging, data caching, and synch capabilities for connected devices
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What is AWS Greengrass?

Greengrass lets you run IoT applications seamlessly across the AWS cloud and local devices using AWS Lambda and AWS IoT.
AWS Greengrass is a tool in the Internet of Things Services category of a tech stack.

Who uses AWS Greengrass?

Companies
6 companies reportedly use AWS Greengrass in their tech stacks, including internet-of-things, IoT, and Cloud & SRE & DevOps.

Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS Greengrass.

AWS Greengrass Integrations

Decisions about AWS Greengrass

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose AWS Greengrass in their tech stack.

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We are developing an AWS IoT app for large boats. The IoT devices have sensors all over the boat for engine oil pressure, position, water depth, fuel level, crew location, etc. When the boat has internet, we interact with AWS cloud using lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. When the boat is offshore, the captain and crew still need normal and emergency alerts and real-time sensor information. The crew might have an Android or IoS phone or a Windows or macOS PC to receive alerts and interact with sensors. We may use the AWS GreenGrasss edge computing solution and either MQTT or HTML for that function.

Question: We want to develop a cross-platform client to run on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS, and possibly Linux. We are primarily Python programmers, so PyQt or Kivy are options for us, but we have heard good things about React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, and others. We think an AWS Greengrass core on an RPI4 could communicate to the client with MQTT or a local webserver with a client web interface.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

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AWS Greengrass's Features

  • Respond to local events in near real-time
  • Operate offline

AWS Greengrass Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to AWS Greengrass?
Azure IoT Hub
Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Device messages are sent in a durable way to accommodate intermittently connected devices.
Mosquitto
It is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.. The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.
Amazon IoT
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.
Node-RED
It is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
AWS IoT Device Management
AWS IoT Device Management makes it easy to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale. IoT Device Management lets you register your devices individually or in bulk, and manage permissions so that devices remain secure. Then, you use the IoT Device Management console to organize your devices into groups, monitor and troubleshoot device functionality, and send remote updates to your devices.
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AWS Greengrass's Followers
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