Describe things - Amazon IoT Core
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Describe things

You can use the DescribeThing command to display more detailed information about a thing:

$ aws iot describe-thing --thing-name "MyLightBulb"
{
    "version": 3,
    "thingName": "MyLightBulb",
    "thingArn": "arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:thing/MyLightBulb",
    "thingId": "12345678abcdefgh12345678ijklmnop12345678",
    "defaultClientId": "MyLightBulb",
    "thingTypeName": "StopLight",
    "attributes": {
        "model": "123",
        "wattage": "75"
    }
}

For more information, see describe-thing from the Amazon CLI Command Reference.