# AWS IoT Events Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Other IoT Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-iot) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About AWS IoT Events AWS IoT Events is a fully managed IoT service that makes it easy to detect and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications. Events are patterns of data identifying more complicated circumstances than expected, such as changes in equipment when a belt is stuck or connected motion detectors using movement signals to activate lights and security cameras. ## AWS IoT Events Reviews ### 1. AWS IoT Events Were Good While They Lasted **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kovid R. | Head of Solutions Architecture, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2026 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** It was a straightforward service to use for integrating directly with IoT devices or with aggregation tools for managing fleets of devices. It also connected seamlessly with Lambda, SQS, and SNS, along with many other services. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** That the service is being shut down in another month or so. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** IoT events have helped me on projects focused on road safety, logistics, and industrial sensor telemetry, including diagnostic events. ### 2. one of the best iot solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karmavir J. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** the setup is very easy. using it with Pub sub client and lambda make adding functionalities to the infra very quick. The aws rtos for esp32 is a great thing to have and makes decreses baremetal programming. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** the authentication mechanism can be a bit better rather than only using certificates and identity providers for microcontrollers where storage is already scarce. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** had to build a scaleable iot solution in a short time. with aws iot core we achived it in 2 weeks . events played a huge role in use case as we only had to configure a few things rather than createing a whole custom infrastructure. ### 3. Serverless and Event Driven **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subrat P. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Real-Time event processing- the events enable to respond changes in IoT devices in real-time which is critical for many IoT applications. In turn, it helps to monitor and respond to changes in the device state, trigger actions based on specific events Integration with other AWS services: AWS IoT events integrates with a wide range of other AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, and SNS which enables to build of complex IoT solution. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Limited protocol support that is, MQTT and HTTP protocols only which may create limits to the devices that connect to the IOT Events. The cost might get high if a large volume of events is generated **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT Events has provided me with a good platform which I have implemented in my Home automation and Office Automation projects. I have implemented an automated switch that turns on and off lights, the water pump, and the air conditioners. ### 4. AWS IoT review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed E. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Easy to set up and use: AWS IoT Events provides an intuitive interface for setting up rules that trigger actions based on incoming IoT data. It's designed to be easy to use for both developers and non-technical users. Scalability: AWS IoT Events is highly scalable, which means it can handle large volumes of IoT data without any performance issues. This makes it a good choice for businesses that need to process a lot of data quickly. Real-time processing: AWS IoT Events can process incoming IoT data in real-time, which means you can trigger actions as soon as certain conditions are met. This can be useful in a variety of use cases, such as predictive maintenance or real-time alerting. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Cost: AWS IoT Events can be expensive, particularly if you're processing a large volume of data. You'll need to carefully monitor your usage and consider cost-saving measures, such as using data retention policies or optimizing your rules. Complexity: While AWS IoT Events is designed to be easy to use, it can still be complex to set up and configure, particularly if you're not familiar with AWS or IoT concepts. You'll need to invest time and resources in learning how to use the service effectively. Integration with non-AWS services: While AWS IoT Events integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, integrating with non-AWS services may be more challenging. You may need to use custom integrations or third-party tools to connect AWS IoT Events with other systems. Security: As with any IoT system, security is a critical consideration when using AWS IoT Events. You'll need to ensure that your devices are properly secured and that your data is encrypted and protected from unauthorized access. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** rocessing and analyzing large volumes of IoT data: AWS IoT Events enables businesses to process and analyze large volumes of IoT data in real-time, which can help them identify patterns, trends, and anomalies that may be indicative of potential problems or opportunities. Automating actions based on IoT data: With AWS IoT Events, businesses can create rules that trigger actions based on incoming IoT data. This can help automate processes and enable faster, more efficient decision-making. ### 5. Best in class service to analyse IOT Data Streams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh K. | Senior Manager - Cloud Security , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** 3 capabilities Event Detection: AWS IoT Events allows users to detect and respond to events from IoT devices and equipment, using machine learning algorithms and pre-built connectors to popular AWS services. Real-time Analytics: It provides real-time analytics for IoT events, allowing users to identify and respond to events as they occur. Integration with other AWS Services: AWS IoT Events integrates with other AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Kinesis, allowing users to take automated actions in response to events. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Complex setup: AWS IoT Events can be complex to set up and configure, particularly for users who are new to IoT or AWS. Cost: The service may incur additional costs for processing, data transfer and storage, especially for high volume event processing. Limitations on customizing event processing: While AWS IoT Events provides pre-built connectors to popular AWS services, users may find limitations on customizing event processing to meet their specific needs **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT Events is solving the problem of detecting and responding to events from IoT devices and equipment in real-time. This is done by using machine learning algorithms and pre-built connectors to popular AWS services. The benefits of using AWS IoT Events include: Improved efficiency: By detecting events from IoT devices and responding to them automatically, organizations can improve the efficiency of their operations and save time. Better decision making: With real-time analytics, organizations can gain insights into the behavior of their IoT devices and make informed decisions to improve their operations. Increased automation: By integrating with other AWS services, organizations can automate their responses to events, freeing up time and resources for other tasks. Scalability: As organizations continue to grow and expand their IoT deployments, AWS IoT Events provides a scalable solution for managing events, ensuring they can respond effectively to changes in the environment. ### 6. Excellent experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumitra G. | Information Technology Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Scalability, integration and security are the best features of AWS IoT Events.AWS IoT provides advanced security measures, such as device authentication and data encryption, to protect IoT data from potential threats. AWS IoT Events can handle large volumes of IoT device data. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** All features are good about AWS IoT Events except cost, complexity and regional availability. AWS IoT Events can be expensive for small businesses. Its complexity can lead firms to hire AWS specialists, increasing the cost. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking building automation systems is the one feature I use most of the time, which helps monitor equipment failures in this environment. I also use this feature to trigger an actions. ### 7. Great set up all round **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bonnie J. | Brand Representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** I like the way they set up the screen to make you feel very involved in the event or events depending on what your using the software for. It's easy for anyone hosting aswell **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** They way they have set up the chat is quite annoying, if you have a question it can be a bit tricky to navigate between what is the support and what is not the support **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me monitor my fleet dealing with drivers and customers and making sure the whole process runs smoothly from start to finish. It also makes sure my employees feel comfortable ### 8. Visualization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cheick O. | Field Applicant Engineer (F.A.E), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** I like the built-in visualization tools that allow creating dashboards and charts to monitor and analyze the data generated by your IoT devices and applications. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** The engine rule it's a bit hard for medefine rules to detect events and trigger actions based on various conditions and patterns **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time Data Processing can definitly help me for process data streams in real-time and detect patterns, trends, and anomalies as they occur. ### 9. I grow up with the new tech using AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nabeel A. | Assistant Manager IT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Extremely get knowledge and helpful techniques to deployment **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Till I experienced nothing even a one services that is not used in the data center **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** By getting knowledge the capability makes to deploy the tools in a production house ### 10. Great solution for IOT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** I like the AWS IOT most because the algorithms of machine learnings to detect and respond to events from IoT devices are very short and quick. Also, it can handle many requests at the moment in time. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Sometimes the latency provided by AWS IoT is much more. If it can be reduced, it's all good, in my opinion. Apart from this, I don't think there is anything to dislike about AWS IoT. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest benefit of using AWS IoT is that it provides all information from many sensors about the failure of machine or any other technical problem, due to which I can get full information about machine on time to time basis. ### 11. Highly recommended ,Very likely to use and beneficial. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** It drives Optimized manufacturing efficiency for product. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** There is limited size for message. We can send and receive message of only size 128KB. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT Events scales automatically when I need to connect homogeneous devices. I used to define a detector once for a specific type of device, and the service automatically scales out and manage all instances of that device that connect to AWS IoT Events.It is proven to be very beneficiary for me. ### 12. It's good to see the AWS IoT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** I like the best about the IOT event is the services that they described in the event **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** I don't dislike anything i have enjoyed the event **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** The realtime location using GPS ### 13. AWS IoT is amazing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** osama a. | Data analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** IoT is amazing it provides different types of model to monitor and analyze data and remotely managing device. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Nothing is to dislike as it is a technology which will continuously growing. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT events solving different aspects of device management and solving technological problems regarding connectivity ### 14. Very good event by AWS get a chance to learn may thongs AWS helping people for more services of AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen s. | cloud support executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Learning and a boostup into career into the AWS cloud i prefer if these events holds eventualy it will help more people to learn and grow on AWS **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Nothing everything works well on the events donw by AWS IoT events **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** Givivng a boosinf up into my career ### 15. Connecting AWS IoT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** This can be helpful for those who started to use IoT devices connect with AWS cloud. Very informative for tech guys who wants to expand or upgrade their knowledge. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Events should be less time consuming since people are engaged with multiple tasks. Speak less show more in terms of sharing practical or hands on skills. Hopefully this will be too helpful next time. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simply AWS cloud is solving the current need or the most industry demanding of IoT requirements. This in terms showing the capability of product. All achieved what I required. See you 😊. ### 16. Super easy to configure and fast execution! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayushi A. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** Easy to identify the state of products and processes from multiple sources of telemetry data which makes an administrator's work easy to communicate with the stakeholders. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Payload errors due to incompatible data types. This error occurs only if the action data/payload is large. Make sure you enter the correct input and variable names to avoid this issue. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can use AWS IoT SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute standard industrial performance metrics, and create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues and reduce gaps in production. ### 17. My goto IoT solutions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** The setup is extremely easy to set up and it is really easy to use with other AWS products like lambda functions etc. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Data processing is a bit challenging at the moment using this product. Some data processing tools which use machine learning would be a good addition to the product **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product helps us a lot in fault detection and identifying the root cause in our setup and putting the data on the cloud. It has substantially helped in reducing our error and monitoring budgets. ### 18. Interesting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Kashif N. | Data scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** I like the device monitoring for failures and trigger system. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Sometimes the detector fails to trigger. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** The on time action that AWS IoT events take ### 19. review will be based upon my experience as mechatronics engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** omer s. | Electrical and electronics engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** user contribution and open source assistance **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** user friendly and no collaboration with modern software and ide **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** AI and automation ### 20. Track tool metrics in real time with AWS IoT events. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** It is easy to use and goes well with existing AWS core IoT devices. used it to track the real time motion of avionic sensors. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** We didn't find one as competitior to evaluate at the time choosing this as solution, we are pretty happy with what it offers, scope is there to improve on analytics view. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to track and monitor avaionic spare parts performance in real-time. ### 21. Powerful cloud application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan G. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Events?** It's sophisticated and powerful. It's so flexible that it can be extended to my own needs. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Events?** Kinda difficult to set up at the beginning. **What problems is AWS IoT Events solving and how is that benefiting you?** cloud application ## AWS IoT Events Discussions - [What is AWS IoT Events used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-iot-events-used-for) - [View AWS IoT Events pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-events/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+21%3A10%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7908f7f8-17e3-4d6d-874e-cbcbfbad28dc&secure%5Btoken%5D=b64ebca10ad63950155904e92a58508330cdea7c07aba72b92edf6c19cc56896&format=llm_user) ## AWS IoT Events Integrations - [Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns/reviews) - [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs/reviews) - [Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-storage-service-s3/reviews) ## Top AWS IoT Events Alternatives - [Andonix](https://www.g2.com/products/andonix/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (51 reviews) - [Onomondo](https://www.g2.com/products/onomondo/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (20 reviews) - [Shodan](https://www.g2.com/products/shodan/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (5 reviews)