IoT Greegrass 2

Happy New Year 2021 to all !

New version (2.0) of AWS IoT Greengrass is beneficial for device builders to build, deploy, and manage intelligent device software. AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 provides an open source edge runtime, a rich set of pre-built software components, tools for local software development, and new features for managing software on large fleets of devices.

Existing devices running AWS IoT Greengrass 1.x will continue to run without any changes. To move the existing AWS IoT Greengrass 1.x devices and workloads to AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0, migration guidelines are drafted at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/move-from-v1.html

As depicted in the above diagram, Greengrass provides hardware root of trust private key storage for edge devices along with the capabilities of hardware-secured message encryption.

As it is launched now, the first 1,000 devices in your account will not incur any AWS IoT Greengrass charges until December 31, 2021  Pricing details are at https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/pricing/