Try the Amazon IoT Core interactive tutorial
The interactive tutorial shows the components of a simple IoT solution built on Amazon IoT. The tutorial's animations show how IoT devices interact with Amazon IoT Core services. This topic provides a preview of the Amazon IoT Core interactive tutorial. The images in the console include animations that don't appear in the images in this tutorial.
To run the demo, you must first Set up your Amazon Web Services account. The tutorial, however, doesn't require any Amazon IoT resources, additional software, or any coding.
Expect to spend approximately 5-10 minutes on this demo. Giving yourself 10 minutes will allow more time to comprehend each of the steps.
To run the Amazon IoT Core interactive tutorial
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Open the Amazon IoT home page
in the Amazon IoT console. On the Amazon IoT home page, in the Learning resources window pane, choose Start tutorial.
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In the Amazon IoT Console Tutorial page, review the tutorial sections and choose Start section when you're ready to continue.
The following sections describe how the Amazon IoT Console Tutorial presents these Amazon IoT Core features:
Connecting IoT devices
Learn how IoT devices communicate with Amazon IoT Core.
The animation in this step shows how two devices, the control device on the left and a smart lamp in the house on the right, connect and communicate with Amazon IoT Core in the cloud. The animation shows the devices communicating with Amazon IoT Core and reacting to the messages they receive.
For more information about connecting devices to Amazon IoT Core, see Connecting to Amazon IoT Core.
Saving offline device state
Learn how Amazon IoT Core saves device state for while a device or app is offline.
The animation in this step shows how the Device Shadow service in Amazon IoT Core saves device state information for the control device and the smart lamp. While the smart lamp is offline, the Device Shadow saves commands from the control device.
When the smart lamp reconnects to Amazon IoT Core, it retrieves those commands. When the control device is offline, the Device Shadow saves state information from the smart lamp. When the control device reconnects, it retrieves the current state of the smart lamp to update its display.
For more information about Device Shadows, see Amazon IoT Device Shadow service.
Routing device data to services
Learn how Amazon IoT Core sends device state to other Amazon services.
The animation in this step shows how Amazon IoT Core sends data from the devices to other Amazon services by using Amazon IoT rules. Amazon IoT rules subscribe to specific messages from the devices, interpret the data in those messages, and route the interpreted data to other services. In this example, an Amazon IoT rule interprets data from a motion sensor and sends commands to a Device Shadow, which then sends them to the smart bulb. As in the previous example, the Device Shadow stores the device-state info for the control device.
For more information about Amazon IoT rules, see Rules for Amazon IoT.