Creating a data store - Amazon IoT Analytics
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Creating a data store

A data store receives and stores your messages. It is not a database but a scalable and queryable repository of your messages. You can create multiple data stores to store messages that comes from different devices or locations, or your can use a single data store to receive all of your Amazon IoT messages.

aws iotanalytics create-datastore --datastore-name mydatastore

To list the data stores you have already created.

aws iotanalytics list-datastores

To get more information about a data store.

aws iotanalytics describe-datastore --datastore-name mydatastore