Managing AWS IoT Devices at Scale

Course Description

Internet of Things (IoT) systems are more than a few temperature sensors and a couple of light bulb switches. Rather, they are complex systems, sometimes spanning a large physical area, with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of devices.

In this course, you will learn how large-scale AWS IoT systems are built and managed.

As you progress through this course, you relate the concepts that you are learning about to a real-world use case of a food manufacturing company running a fleet of trucks and a sophisticated dairy processing plant.

• Course level: 200
• Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes

Activities: 

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives: 

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the main features and benefits of AWS IoT Device Management.
• Explain the best practices for fleet management recommended by AWS.
• Describe how to provision devices through the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
• Compare the benefits of using Just-in-Time Provisioning (JITP) and Just-in-Time Registration (JITR) to register devices within AWS IoT Core.
• Explain the benefits of using thing groups to organize things.
• Describe the purpose and benefits of fleet indexing.
• Recognize the benefits of applying and reviewing fine-grained logging.
• Identify how the configuration options for AWS IoT Jobs affect the execution of remote operations to one or more devices within a fleet.
• Describe how to create and monitor the status of AWS IoT Jobs.

Intended audience: 

This course is intended for solutions architects, developers, data engineers, and system operations engineers who are familiar with the AWS Cloud.

Prerequisites:
You should be familiar with AWS Cloud concepts and AWS IoT services. This course assumes you’ve completed or have equivalent knowledge of the concepts in the following courses:

• Getting Started with AWS IoT
• Securely Connecting AWS IoT Devices to the Cloud

Course Outline

Section 1: Introduction

• Lesson 1: How to Use This Course
• Lesson 2: Course Introduction
• Lesson 3: Scenario

Section 2: AWS IoT Device Management

• Lesson 4: AWS IoT Device Management
• Lesson 5: Preparing for Fleet Management

Section 3: Fleet Creation

• Lesson 6: Provisioning Devices in AWS IoT
• Lesson 7: AWS IoT Provisioning Options
• Lesson 8: Provisioning in Advance
• Lesson 9: Provisioning Devices on Demand (JITP and JITR)
• Lesson 10: Just-in-Time Provisioning: Process Overview

Section 4: Organizing the Fleet

• Lesson 11: Thing Groups
• Lesson 12: Fleet Indexing
• Lesson 13: Managing Thing Indexing

Section 5: Logs and Fleet Monitoring

• Lesson 14: AWS IoT Logs
• Lesson 15: Monitoring

Section 6: Remote Operations with AWS IoT Jobs

• Lesson 16: AWS IoT Jobs
• Lesson 17: Managing Jobs
• Lesson 18: Jobs Notifications
• Lesson 19: Interacting with AWS IoT Jobs

Section 7: Conclusion

• Lesson 20: Recap and Review
• Lesson 21: Course Assessment
• Lesson 22: Resources Cleanup
• Lesson 23: Feedback