Why developers like AWS Greengrass

What is AWS Greengrass?

Greengrass lets you run IoT applications seamlessly across the AWS cloud and local devices using AWS Lambda and AWS IoT.

AWS Greengrass is a tool in the Internet of Things Services category of a tech stack.

Who uses AWS Greengrass?

Companies

6 companies reportedly use AWS Greengrass in their tech stacks, including internet-of-things, IoT, and Cloud & SRE & DevOps.

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IoT

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Platform

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CloudDevelopment

Developers

17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS Greengrass.

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AWS Greengrass Integrations

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Decisions about AWS Greengrass

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose AWS Greengrass in their tech stack.

William Miller

CEO at Stealth Startup · Feb 11, 2021 | 7 upvotes · 447.6K views

Needs advice

PyQt

React Native

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Xamarin

We are developing an AWS IoT app for large boats. The IoT devices have sensors all over the boat for engine oil pressure, position, water depth, fuel level, crew location, etc. When the boat has internet, we interact with AWS cloud using lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. When the boat is offshore, the captain and crew still need normal and emergency alerts and real-time sensor information. The crew might have an Android or IoS phone or a Windows or macOS PC to receive alerts and interact with sensors. We may use the AWS GreenGrasss edge computing solution and either MQTT or HTML for that function.

Question: We want to develop a cross-platform client to run on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS, and possibly Linux. We are primarily Python programmers, so PyQt or Kivy are options for us, but we have heard good things about React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, and others. We think an AWS Greengrass core on an RPI4 could communicate to the client with MQTT or a local webserver with a client web interface.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

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AWS Greengrass's Features

Respond to local events in near real-time
Operate offline

AWS Greengrass Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to AWS Greengrass?

Azure IoT Hub

Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Device messages are sent in a durable way to accommodate intermittently connected devices.

Mosquitto

It is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.. The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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