Category: Technical How-to

Welcome to another installment in the Bites of IoT blog series. In this bite, we will use AWS CloudFormation, the AWS IoT rules engine, and AWS Lambda to automate the setup and teardown of two AWS IoT rules.  You can use the AWS IoT console to create and edit rules by hand, but in production you might want to […]

Background ClearScale was founded in 2011, with a focus on delivering best-of-breed cloud systems integration, application development, and managed services. We are an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with competencies in Migration, DevOps, Marketing & Commerce, Big Data, and Mobile. Our experienced engineers, architects, and developers are all certified or accredited by AWS. We have a […]

According to Gartner, the Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous potential for data generation across the roughly 21 billion endpoints expected to be in use in 2020(1). Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use. Its easy to get excited about this rapid growth and envisage a future where the digital world extends further into our […]

Connectivity is a key element to evaluate when designing IoT systems as it will weigh heavily on the performance, capabilities, autonomy of battery powered objects, and cost of the overall solution. There is no one network that fits all scenarios which is why AWS partners with many different network providers. By partnering, you can then […]

Note: The code examples in this blog post were originally written for Python 2.7, which has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. Please ensure you use Python 3.x for this tutorial. Connected devices have found their way into a myriad of commercial and consumer applications. Industries have already moved, or are in the process […]

The AWS IoT platform enables you to connect your internet-enabled devices to the AWS cloud via MQTT/HTTP/Websockets protocol. Once connected, the devices can send data to MQTT topic(s). Data ingested on MQTT topics can be routed into AWS services (like Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Lambda etc.), by configuring rules in AWS IoT […]

Update: For the most up to date implementation, please refer to the AWS documentation for creating an AWS IoT rule that forwards MQTT messages to an Amazon SNS topic for SMS delivery. Welcome to another installment in the Bites of IoT blog series. In this bite, we will use the AWS IoT rules engine to […]

May 20, 2025: The AWS IoT action “iot:AttachPrinciplePolicy” used in this blog post has been deprecated. Please use iot:AttachPolicy as an alternate option. In an earlier blog post about certificates, we discussed how use-your-own-certificate support in AWS IoT lets customers use device certificates signed and issued by their own certificate authority (CA) to connect and […]

Welcome to Bites of IoT, the first post in a series designed to introduce developers to AWS IoT. In this first bite, we’ll set up a very simple client that can create things in AWS IoT, send messages to those things, subscribe to topics to receive messages from things, and then clean up. The client […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. One of the biggest benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the ability to get contextual insight from sensor data. Before you analyze sensor data, you may want to remove anomalies. Sometimes, though, you may want to analyze the […]