Front-End Web & Mobile

Use Your Own Certificate with AWS IoT

Introduction Earlier this week, AWS IoT released support for customers who need to use their own device certificates signed by their preferred Certificate Authority (CA). This is in addition to the support for AWS IoT generated certificates. The CA certificate is used to sign and issue device certificates, while the device certificates are used to […]

Setting up Parse Server and MongoDB on AWS using CloudFormation

As you may already know, Parse announced it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. We recently published a step-by-step guide on how to migrate to the Parse Server using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with MongoLab (now mLab). In this blog we cover how to deploy both Parse Server (using Elastic Beanstalk) and a MongoDB instance (with Amazon EC2) […]

Migrating from Parse Push to Amazon SNS

As you may already know, Parse announced that it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. To help customers transition their Parse Core resources to another hosted provider like AWS, Parse open-sourced the Parse Server and published a migration guide. The guide, however, does not have a migration path for Parse Push and suggests […]

Analyze device-generated data with AWS IoT and Amazon OpenSearch Service

September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Sending device-generated data from AWS IoT to Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) Service enables several analytics and monitoring use cases such as performing full-text search for device error codes and visualizing device metrics in near real-time with […]

Unity V3 support in the AWS SDK for .NET is out of preview

Last month, we announced that the AWS SDK for Unity will be part of the AWS SDK for .NET with preview support for the AWS SDK for Unity. With today’s release, we are ready to label the AWS SDK for Unity as production ready. You can now upgrade the SDK simply by deleting the version […]

Welcome Parse IoT Customers!

Guest post by Steve Johnson You may have heard the recent announcement that Facebook’s Parse Service will be retired over the next year.  Parse is recommending that current users migrate their products to alternative services such as Amazon Web Services (the recently open-sourced Parse server runs great on Amazon EC2). For Internet of Things (IoT) […]

Transition Guide: Parse Analytics to Amazon Mobile Analytics

Update: April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to Amazon Pinpoint. As […]