Probably to make use of their whole IoT platform, such as https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/ https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/. I still wouldn't use it over a

Probably to make use of their whole IoT platform, such as https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/ https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/. I still wouldn't use it over a properly architected local solution (being a software architect with focus on security), but if you _really_ don't want to write the non-feature-specific code then I suppose their stuff isn't that bad.