AWS Serverless Design for IoT

Program the ESP8266/ESP32 in Arduino, then enhance, store, and and visualize IoT data with AWS Serverless design flows

Created by: Stephen Borsay
IoT Engineer: Device to Cloud Integration

What Will I Learn?

• Basic IoT Serverless design patterns on AWS
• AWS IoT workflows, rules, and actions with AWS IoT Core
• Programming the ESP8266 and the ESP32 with the free Arduino IDE
• Gain experience with AWS serverless services such as Lambda, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and IoT Analytics
• Asynchronous AWS WebSockets with Lambda
• Learn how to host static websites on AWS s3 and set bucket permissions and CORS
• Become familiar with device to cloud communication
• Gain competency understanding visualizations in JavaScript with IoT data

Requirements

• Basic Knowledge of AWS cloud services
• Familiarity with JavaScript
• Fundamental knowledge of the Internet of Things ( IoT)
• Ability to configure and run a basic Arduino Sketch on the ESP8266 or ESP32
• Ability to create a free tier AWS account, create a root/super user, and navigate between AWS services

Target audience

• IoT engineers and hobbyists interested in AWS
• AWS developers interested in IoT
• Arduino and firmware developers interested in IoT
• JavaScript developers with cloud knowledge but lacking hardware or IoT experience
• Web or Cloud Programmers interested in Embedded Devices
• Cloud developers migrating from EC2 instances to serverless IoT design