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I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't made (or commissioned) a small SBC computer to compete directly with the Raspberry Pi but one that is certified for an

by mikece 4y ago

I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't made (or commissioned) a small SBC computer to compete directly with the Raspberry Pi but one that is certified for and pre-loaded with software for AWS IoT applications (including Greengrass) and selling for about $99. At that price point you could sell both to AWS customers looking for inexpensive IoT systems for experimentation (or deployment!) as well as the general enthusiast market who could replace the AWS IoT bits (probably based on Fedora?) and put whatever distro they want on it. This would be a win-win for Amazon since the general enthusiast market could enable volume sales to keep the price of entry for AWS IoT experimenters low enough to try out (creating yet another sales funnel for AWS services). I wonder if Amazon would consider using a RISC-V CPU for such a device?

packetlost 4y ago
They sorta already do, it's called Echo. I'm not convinced there's a market for what you're describing, or at least not one that's necessarily worth the cost. A lot of the cheap Chinese IoT devices generally available already go through AWS. People with the skills and desire to do that type of thing themselves are both a small market, and less likely to use AWS for the types of projects they'd be building with said device.
jburgess777 4y ago
They do have something like this, an ESP32 based system for IoT using FreeRTOS. https://devices.amazonaws.com/detail/a3G0h000007djMLEAY/M5Stack-Core2-ESP32-IoT-Development-Kit-for-AWS https://devices.amazonaws.com/detail/a3G0h000007djMLEAY/M5St... I am not sure of the exact relationship AWS has with FeeRTOS, but the FAQ says they have ‘taken stewardship’ of the open source project. https://www.freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html https://www.freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html
- peoplearepeople 4y ago
  The maintainer works for Amazon, I think
- wrycoder 4y ago
  LOL, MIT open source license. That’s what happens - the developer sells out. It’s not GPL, so it’s open to embrace, extend, extinguish. We shall see.
tracker1 4y ago
For that matter a scaled down version of the chipsets their arm cloud servers use. Where you can build/test in-house and deploy to AWS. I know there's the "why not just build/test in AWS?" as a question, and the answer is sometimes you want to self-host or at least start that way. Or you want to do more than just the web side, but still want to be compatible.

by mikece 4y ago

packetlost 4y ago

They sorta already do, it's called Echo. I'm not convinced there's a market for what you're describing, or at least not one that's necessarily worth the cost. A lot of the cheap Chinese IoT devices generally available already go through AWS. People with the skills and desire to do that type of thing themselves are both a small market, and less likely to use AWS for the types of projects they'd be building with said device.

jburgess777 4y ago

They do have something like this, an ESP32 based system for IoT using FreeRTOS. https://devices.amazonaws.com/detail/a3G0h000007djMLEAY/M5Stack-Core2-ESP32-IoT-Development-Kit-for-AWS https://devices.amazonaws.com/detail/a3G0h000007djMLEAY/M5St... I am not sure of the exact relationship AWS has with FeeRTOS, but the FAQ says they have ‘taken stewardship’ of the open source project. https://www.freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html https://www.freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html

peoplearepeople 4y ago
The maintainer works for Amazon, I think
wrycoder 4y ago
LOL, MIT open source license. That’s what happens - the developer sells out. It’s not GPL, so it’s open to embrace, extend, extinguish. We shall see.

tracker1 4y ago

For that matter a scaled down version of the chipsets their arm cloud servers use. Where you can build/test in-house and deploy to AWS. I know there's the "why not just build/test in AWS?" as a question, and the answer is sometimes you want to self-host or at least start that way. Or you want to do more than just the web side, but still want to be compatible.