What is AWS IoT Core?

This is a high-level overview of AWS IoT Core - what it is, how to connect, and what it can be used for. More detail coming in future videos!
#aws #iot #cloud #robotics
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Chapter times:
00:00 Introduction
01:36 How Data Moves
02:29 Creating a Thing
04:35 How to Connect
06:23 What can IoT Core be used for?
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Links:
AWS IoT Core: aws.amazon.com/iot-core/
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[@shepherdx7713]

hey Mike! I've just started watching your videos and you're pretty informative when it comes to Robotics and Software in general. Are there any playlists, free online resources, tutorials you can suggest for a beginner in robotics. Like say here, you talked about AWS, perhaps you could provide some very useful resources to learn it. Anyways thanks once again and happy watching your videos!

[@mikelikesrobots]

I'm glad you find them useful! For learning general software development, I link to some resources in my video on Getting Started as a Robotics Software Engineer: th-cam.com/video/tkYZmw8x-SM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zdsO_HxhlOJDP5FT
As for AWS specifically, I don't talk about that much. I hope the videos on this channel prove useful, but you can also take a look at AWS documentation and try to work through some of their workshops. There are also plenty of videos on the official channel: www.youtube.com/@amazonwebservices/playlists - and you could consider studying for a Cloud Practitioner certification: aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/
I think resources for the Cloud Practitioner may be paid, but you can see what's available online. Unfortunately, I don't have a recommendation for this - I studied as a Developer Associate using Cloud Guru, which is a paid service. It was very good, though!

[@sylvainbodji1124]

So basically, a robot that is connected to iotCore does not need to haave an embedded machine learning algorithm, all it needs is to send realtime data to iotCore and it will receive in response the next step it can take to acheive its goal, after the data it sent was processed by ioTcore machine learning algorithm ?

[@anandhukraju9382]

Are there any videos where you explain how we can keep a track of the device's connectivity?

[@mikelikesrobots]

That sounds like something I could make - what exactly do you mean? Things like how often a device connects, or how many devices connect?

[@anandhukraju9382]

@@mikelikesrobots More like if a thing disconnects or connects, if we can get that information in a topic and trigger an event to lambda or something of that sort.

[@mikelikesrobots]

Ah, I see what you mean! Yes - you can use connect/disconnect events: docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/life-cycle-events.html#connect-disconnect
Then attach an IoT Rule that watches the reserved topics and routes it to a Lambda. My Lambda video shows the IoT Rule and Lambda part, but without the connect/disconnect event: th-cam.com/video/AVfk8ICQK9o/w-d-xo.html

[@anandhukraju9382]

@@mikelikesrobots I've actually figured it out. Thank you so much. In my case I didn't have to use Lambda however.

[@ngocduongtuan3988]

Can you show how to create a policy?

[@mikelikesrobots]

There's a few over the videos! You can create an inline policy as shown for KVS here: th-cam.com/video/Sfc641i3i64/w-d-xo.html
If you have more questions, I can find more links to help!

[@mikelikesrobots]

Found another link on creating a policy that shows the UI more clearly, although it doesn't show filling in individual fields. Hopefully it helps: th-cam.com/video/vzzmse-XgHg/w-d-xo.html

[@udaykiran2996]

How did you got that certificates to EC2 instance?

[@mikelikesrobots]

I always authorize my SSH key on my EC2 instances so I can SSH and SCP onto it! Instructions for SSHing are available in docs: docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connect-linux-inst-ssh.html
But, you don't need to generate a keypair every time. Generate a keypair on your own machine, then when launching EC2 specify not to provide a keypair. When it's up, you can use EC2 Connect and add your public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, which will let you SSH in to the instance. If you're struggling, let me know where and I can add more info.