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With AWS IoT Core, applications can keep track of and communicate with all devices at all times, even when they are not connected. Key Features and Functionality: - Device Connectivity and Management: AWS IoT Core allows for the secure connection, management, and scaling of device fleets without the need to provision or manage servers. It supports various communication protocols, including MQTT, HTTPS, MQTT over WebSockets, and LoRaWAN, providing flexibility in device communication. - Secure Communication: The service ensures end-to-end encryption and mutual authentication, safeguarding device connections and data integrity. It supports multiple authentication methods, including X.509 certificates and custom token-based authentication. - Data Processing and Routing: AWS IoT Core's rules engine evaluates inbound messages, allowing for real-time filtering, transformation, and routing based on user-defined business rules. This enables seamless integration with other AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB for further processing and storage. - Device Shadow: The service maintains a persistent, virtual representation of each device's state, known as a Device Shadow. This feature allows applications to interact with devices even when they are offline by providing the last reported state and desired future state of each device. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: AWS IoT Core simplifies the development and deployment of IoT applications by offering a secure, scalable, and fully managed platform. It addresses key challenges in IoT solutions, such as secure device connectivity, efficient data processing, and seamless integration with cloud services. By leveraging AWS IoT Core, businesses can focus on innovation and delivering value to their customers without the complexities of managing infrastructure. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS IoT Core Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-core/discuss) Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-core/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud IoT Core](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud IoT Core") Google Cloud IoT Core 4.1/5(30) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) [ ![IBM Watson IoT Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Watson IoT Platform") IBM Watson IoT Platform 4.5/5(22) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-iot-platform/reviews) [ ![Azure IoT Central](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure IoT Central") Azure IoT Central 4.5/5(24) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-iot-central/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-core/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 18 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## AWS IoT Core Integrations (9) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. ![Atharva P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Atharva P.") AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/27/2026 "Reliable, Scalable Device Messaging with Powerful Rules Engine and Device Shadow" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? The biggest advantage of AWS IoT Core, in my experience, is its reliable and highly scalable device messaging platform. It makes it straightforward to securely connect millions of devices over MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets, while automatically handling authentication, authorization, and message routing. I especially appreciate the Rules Engine and Device Shadow features. Device Shadow lets applications interact with devices even when they’re temporarily offline, and the Rules Engine can route incoming messages to multiple AWS services without the need to write custom middleware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? Setting up certificates, IoT policies, MQTT topics, and fine-grained permissions can be confusing at first. When connectivity issues come up, troubleshooting often means looking at certificates, topic permissions, and policy evaluation together. That combined view takes some time to learn, so there’s definitely a learning curve in the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS IoT Core addresses the challenge of securely connecting thousands of distributed devices while still enabling real-time communication. Example: In a smart building deployment, sensors continuously published temperature, humidity, and power-consumption data over MQTT. AWS IoT Core authenticated each device using X.509 certificates, processed incoming telemetry through the Rules Engine, updated Device Shadows to support offline synchronization, and routed events to Lambda for real-time automation—such as triggering HVAC adjustments and maintenance alerts. Overall, this removed the need for us to operate our own MQTT broker, while still providing reliable, scalable communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Diego Felipe M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diego Felipe M.") DM Diego Felipe M. C# consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/26/2025 "The best IoT platform to integrate with your devices" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? Its extremely powerful and can be integrated with FreeRTOS directly, so you can get many features like OTA and telemetry in your devices already out of the box, I use it frequently to connect real devices and bring them the cloud capabilities using IoT Core like gateway to easily implement it with third party or AWS solutions. You can create rules, categories or groups of devices and get cool features like the shadow device to communicate with virtual devices that are currently disconnected in the real world, once those devices become online then the platform updates all the commands or information pending to be sent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? AWS solutions are not quite easy to integrate with other services, so much of the IoT capabilities depends on the way that you integrate it with the rest, for instance there's no way to manage all the keys of your devices in the platform in a graphical way, you can do that if attach the IoT Core with their API and a webpage for example to show the entire table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? I used it like my first option to get telemetry connection from every device that I developed, from a weather sensor to a vending machine IoT core is the best to get managed the connections by MQTT protocol. This service fits perfectly with other instances of AWS like S3 so a complete set of databases can be filled and managed from IoT Core without complexity in the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/7/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shalisha H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shalisha H.") SH Shalisha H. Founder & Senior Repair Technician Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/15/2018 "AWS IoT Core" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? I like the dashboard look and feel, it's very user-friendly. AWS IoT Core allows you to easily connect devices to the cloud and to other devices. I appreciate the videos, because I am a visual learner, that help me to understand AWS IoT Core. I am using AWS IoT in order to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? There are a lot of options and I do not know where to start, sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core: I recommend using the FREE tier before committing to the other paid tiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? I am just begun to use AWS IoT Core but I am excited to see what it can do to expand my knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/22/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jay Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jay Z.") JZ Jay Z. DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/20/2022 "AWS IOT is best for Personal And Professional use" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? AWS - amazon web service provides good different types of services and provides excellent support to clients. we can work with the server without any delay. we can easily integrate with any device using AWS IoT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? No there is nothing that faces any type of downside of this platform. sometimes it will show some error or bug. and the API is so complex and sometimes it lags also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS works well with our program and server management. some other platforms like Azure, and Google Cloud Platform do not provide us with that many proper well-managed services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Yuvraj S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yuvraj S.") YS Yuvraj S. Data Scientist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/16/2022 "Ease you project development by using AWS IoT core service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? It's very helpful for companies or individuals who wanted to use iot service in their projects. It will fulfill all your need to build secure and effective pipeline for you project. It is very easy to connect local iot device to available service on AWS like machine learning service, servers etc. Very easy to control and apply custom lamba function based on you requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? Quite expansive compared to other company which I think attract less small companies to show interest in this. Also there were some issue when I was using like that time multi factor authentication show some compatible issue with AWS core sdk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core: It's useful if you are going to build a pipeline for your iot project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? There was a client project in which i need to gather data from their remote located iot device and need to track and build notifications system for that so client can get notifications and take required actionwhenever device goes down or cross some threshold point. In this I choose AWS IoT core service in this so that we can utilize other service of AWS as well. Like we utilize encryption service to secure data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jasmeet Singh V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jasmeet Singh V.") JV Jasmeet Singh V. S Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/19/2022 "Fantastic IOT service from aws" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? We used it for different iot devices which are used to make Communications and have an external storage which can be used by different CSI drivers to access the storage for our IOT devices. we have different iot devices which are having a hub which is connected and thus all services are being provided by this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? Automation of services and graphical representation could be more enhanced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? Actually we use it as a central server for all our iot devices and it is very useful to make the communication and to keep it everything and sync so that if anything happens in the client side or we can say anything alarm triggers right so it generally it and give us response and act immediately on that error so the response time of working and acting on any thing is quite fast and we can rely upon it we can even subscribe publish all the devices and this service is it good for iot domain The integration and the documentation provided by the aws service is quite easy and useful when we are doing the actual development and plus the services provided by the aws are quite more advanced and it has kept community support and more people are relying on a w s instead of any other service or brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/26/2018 "Reliable and scalable IOT platform, best to use as MQTT socket." 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? The best thing about AWS IoT is Rules Engine feature that enables an AWS customer to continuously ingest, filter, process and route data that is streamed from connected devices. This allows us to interact with other AWS automated services like AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ML or simply pass it to the elastic search service. Simple to use with straightforward UI. SQL statement of the rule and action triggers on every data input through the sensor. The rule also have editable Json based schema so you can simply specify each sensor and restrict outside calls by modifying the Rule. It supports HTTP, MQTT & websocket communication protocols providing secure two way communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? There is not much to dislike on AWS IoT core serivce but the AWS IoT connection metrics have possibility of improvement. Also SQL statement special syntax for AWS IoT documentation is not that good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? We use it to get and scan BLE signals from mobile devices and send the data to the Elastic cache for further use. The main benefit of using this is we can check for condition on each signal scanned and can only save which we wanted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/24/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul S.") RS Rahul S. Embedded Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/23/2020 "The complete IoT solution provider" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? It is the solution that they provide which covers almost all aspects of the architecture of IoT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? Sometimes things get more complicated because there are too many services related to IoT being offered by AWS, So you have to create a simple yet scalable architecture for starting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core: AWS is providing all the aspects of IoT architecture and its supporting ingredients with high quality under one roof using which builds a purely scalable architecture. Consider using AWS if you want a true single platform IoT services which will match your device requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem that I was dealing with is to send the data from various node devices that are the crucial part of the battery-powered real-time embedded system. AWS is truly unmatchable as an MQTT broker it provides you all the power to implement a scalable solution with ease of debugging. And on top of that AWS provides you other supplement services under one roof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abraham A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abraham A.") AA Abraham A. Administrador de Redes y Seguridad Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/31/2018 "It is cool but it is not simple (at the beginning) " 4/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? It has a good encryption requirements to establish the MQTT connection. In this update to IoT Core they made a wey easy to use the SDK/API. You can use a raspberry pi or almost anything that support python or java The give you a trial of 12 months!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? It is the opposite to be simple. Yes it has a manual but it's not clear! You have to go thought a lot of youtube videos to really understand how it works. Amazon changed the original implementation of IBM so the good thing is the security the bad thing is the implementation of it (its awful at the very first time). For my type of final solution i could use Ansible from Red Hat but it would has lost the IoT stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core: You must read about MQTT from IBM and have a good understanding of the quality of service stuff and also be aware of the limitations and differences with IBM standard (the big one for me was QoS and security). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? Im monitoring ping, traceroute, ospf neighborhood and some tracks within IPSLA. B Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") IC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/18/2019 " A great service for IOT devices" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS IoT Core? AWS Lambda integration for a planned smartwatch project, integration and cybersecurity is strong with use with Alexa clod and S3, for file transfer. Prevents all object injection and SQL injection attacks. Is fault-tolerant and reliable, with very low latency. It is fault tolerant and good metaphor fo rmy anti-perfectionist spirituality of cloud based computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core? nothing, the service is excellent. I am satisfied with the service, though video upload latency could be decreased with client side encryption with compression and possible feature extraction as pre processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core: I would definitely recommend IOT core for all AI and ML applications using Sage maker and other AWS deep learning software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using AWS IOT of a number of IoT devices including an animatronic tail for tail languages, and a homeschooling project POC, with an AWS S3 based server of educational media content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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