How Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk works
With Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, you can onboard your Amazon Sidewalk end devices to Amazon IoT and manage and monitor them. It also manages the destinations that send device data to other Amazon Web Services
Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk provides the cloud services that you can use to connect your Sidewalk end devices to the Amazon Web Services Cloud and use other Amazon Web Services. You can also use Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk to manage your Sidewalk devices, and monitor and build applications on them.
Sidewalk end devices communicate with Amazon IoT Core through Sidewalk gateways. Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk manages the service and device policies that Amazon IoT Core requires to manage and communicate with the Sidewalk end devices and gateways. It also manages the destinations that send device data to other Amazon Web Services.

Get started using Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
You can use the Amazon IoT console, the Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk API, or the Amazon CLI to create and onboard Sidewalk end devices and connect them to the Sidewalk network. For information about getting started with Amazon Sidewalk and onboarding end devices to Amazon IoT, see the following topics.
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Getting started with Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This topic walks through the prerequisites for onboarding your Sidewalk end devices, illustrates the workflow using a sensor monitoring application, and provides an overview of how to onboard your device using Amazon CLI commands.
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Connecting Sidewalk devices to Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This section describes the different steps in the onboarding workflow introduction, and walks through onboarding your end devices using the console, and the API operations. You'll also connect your device and view messages that are exchanged between your device and Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk.
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Bulk provisioning devices with Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This section provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial for bulk provisioning your Sidewalk end devices using Amazon IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk. You'll learn the bulk provisioning workflow, and how to onboard a large number of Sidewalk devices.
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