# AWS IoT Core Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [IoT Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About AWS IoT Core AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that enables connected devices to securely and seamlessly interact with cloud applications and other devices. It supports billions of devices and trillions of messages, processing and routing them reliably and securely. 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. ## AWS IoT Core Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **powerful cloud integration** of AWS IoT Core, enhancing device connectivity and functionality seamlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless IoT connectivity** offered by AWS IoT Core, enhancing device integration and cloud capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users value the **powerful integration capabilities** of AWS IoT Core, enhancing device functionalities out of the box. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **scalability** of AWS IoT Core, benefiting from easy integration and seamless cloud capabilities. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that the **learning curve is steep** due to challenging integration and management of IoT capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** of AWS IoT Core restricts integration and management of device keys effectively. (1 reviews) ## AWS IoT Core Reviews ### 1. The best IoT platform to integrate with your devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego Felipe M. | C# consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2025 **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. **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 **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. ### 2. AWS IoT Core **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shalisha H. | Founder & Senior Repair Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **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. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** There are a lot of options and I do not know where to start, sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core:** I recommend using the FREE tier before committing to the other paid tiers. **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. ### 3. AWS IOT is best for Personal And Professional use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay Z. | DevOps Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2022 **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. **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. **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. ### 4. Ease you project development by using AWS IoT core service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuvraj S. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core:** It's useful if you are going to build a pipeline for your iot project. **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. ### 5. Fantastic IOT service from aws **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jasmeet Singh V. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **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. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** Automation of services and graphical representation could be more enhanced **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. ### 6. Reliable and scalable IOT platform, best to use as MQTT socket. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **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. **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. **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. ### 7. The complete IoT solution provider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Embedded Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 8. It is cool but it is not simple (at the beginning) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abraham A. | Administrador de Redes y Seguridad, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **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!! **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 **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). **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 ### 9. A great service for IOT devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 10. Development made easy and life is made easy now **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack J. | Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** As this AWS has many number of inbuilt tools and for the application development we are able to deploy what ever we need and implement it very securely so this is AWS IoT is very great **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** Currently the demo is going on and in that Demo we found lot of things and once it comes to implementation we can know that but as of now I do not dislike any thing of it but my only concern is security.. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core:** I would recommend strongly to get this AWS IoT implemented in the work place since there is a lot of scope and there is a lot of future ahead.. **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development at all levels ### 11. Best for IoT Industry **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** anna p. | Senior Software Development Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** AWS IoT Core makes it easy to use aws services like aws lambda , s3 , Kinesis etc. which enables us to build IoT applications . It also enables to connect IoT devices to cloud . It also supports MQTT message transfer which is necessary for IoT devices communication . It also authenticates the devices which are connected to cloud to maintain the security . It also saves the status of the devices so that it can rollback to the previous update if problem arises . **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** It takes time to understand the workflow of AWS IoT Core as we have to read the documentation of other AWS Services . **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core:** Understand the working of AWS Greengrass and AWS FreeRTOS **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS IoT Core for home automation as it enables us to use other services which are helpful for the development of application . ### 12. Easy Setup & Integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phani Krishna G. | Infra Specialist , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** Easy Setup, Integration with other AWS Services and adoptable. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** for a newbie it takes time to understand concept of Things, Certificates & Policies. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Core:** - SDK is available on many platform. - Works great with AWS GreenGrass - Fully Managed service, No worry of Scaling & Deployments. **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its integration with other AWS Services like Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB helps a lot to implement a sophisticated IoT Solution within our organisation ### 13. IoT Core **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** Altough it's a new feature added to AWS, it has a lot of potential when trying to connect your no-compute devices such as sensors or just sending-data devices. I like the way it generates automatically all the setup you need in, for example, a raspberry, even the script that sends the data. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** The documentation still in baby steps, maybe a little bit of more examples would trigger more sales on industry. **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation for cinema enviroments. ### 14. Best IoT Platform to date **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** Quick Setup process Great dashboard with easy accessible options/menus Integrates really well with other AWS services **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** Easy to understand but takes time (at least for me). Try a trial first SQL Syntax for IoT not the best **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used on distance education/training projects for employees Has helped with inventory in the central warehouse using sensors ### 15. Easy to setup IOT backend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** its SDK's are available in many languages and easy to initialize. It integrates very well with most of AWS's other services **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** Its monitoring feature could use some improvement. data is not displayed in a very friendly manner. **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT core has enabled us to deploy sensors throughout our football stadium to gather telemetry data ### 16. A Great Toolset to Expand Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** The ease of use with AWS IoT Core and quick setup are key success factors when using the service. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** There can be a learning curve if you are unfamiliar with IoT and AWS. **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT provides services to a rapidly growing interested and market shift to automation and connected "things". ### 17. Aws IOT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Core?** 1. Cloud intrustructure 2. Elastic scale up or down based on demand 3. Managed services **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Core?** One of the issue is persistent connectivity . **What problems is AWS IoT Core solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realtime data analysis of equipments - [View AWS IoT Core pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-core/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-27+12%3A42%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b18487e2-cb1f-42e8-9030-64b2a7900a3d&secure%5Btoken%5D=3d7594e17b55d625483fce1ab9441ad35d5fc6bb3abf9e995671eed6ae6091fc&format=llm_user) ## AWS IoT Core Features ** Application Design** - Interface - Templates - Device Workflows - Testing - Hardware Support - Application Deployment ** Application Control** - Data Migration - Data Syncronization - Data Security - Integrations - Lifecycle Management - Analytics ## Top AWS IoT Core Alternatives - [Google Cloud IoT Core](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [IBM Watson IoT Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-iot-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (21 reviews) - [Azure IoT Central](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-iot-central/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (15 reviews)