This Week in AWS: IoT + Key Management

If you’ve been following me for a while, you would know that I was an AWS Community Builder on the machine learning track. That track covered IoT (Internet of Things). This installment of the AWS series will cover IoT and public key infrastructure (PKI).

This August, AWS now lets you use customer managed keys (CMK) for IoT. This is a big deal because you, the AWS customer, should be able to manage your IoT sensors free from AWS. You can use customer managed keys with everything else why not IoT? Now you can. The only criterion is that you must have IoT Core.

What is IoT Core?

IoT Core is message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol. This protocol serves as a message broker sending and receiving messages for IoT. This is an AWS fully managed service.

Here is the AWS official Blog’s IoT category to keep up with the latest.