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Tanmoy Sen

Author: Tanmoy Sen

Tanmoy Sen is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services where he focuses on helping customers and embedded developers connect microcontroller-based devices to the cloud.

Announcing AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded-C 202011.00

Introduction AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded-C (C-SDK) 202011.00 is now generally available. C-SDK is a collection of open source libraries written in C under the MIT license that makes it faster to securely connect embedded IoT devices to AWS IoT Core. This release improves several underlying libraries including coreMQTT, AWS IoT Device Shadow, and […]

Building microcontroller-based IoT applications using HTTPS client in Amazon FreeRTOS

June 2026: This post was originally published in 2019 and referrs to “Amazon FreeRTOS,” which was rebranded to “FreeRTOS” in 2020. The core concepts remain valid, but note the following: When picking a version, use FreeRTOS 202411.00 or later with coreHTTP v3.1.1. TLS 1.3 is now supported and recommended (TLS 1.2 minimum). AWS IoT Device […]