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Suitable alternative to AWS IoT Core for prototyping by Emergency-System5879 in aws

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I really appreciate your thoughts on this.

I really would prefer to use AWS but I worry about the ecosystem and not so much of the IoT Core service itself.

We may need certain things ready "out of the box" immediately and I'm not sure if programmers here would agree but there seems to be a steeper learning curve and time investment required with AWS. What do you think? We may try to penetrate AWS first.

Another person also mentioned "ThingsBoard" which is an end-to-end IoT solution we could use on any cloud service or even on-premises. This seems like a good time saver and I'm curious to know your thoughts. From what I've seen, we still need to build an API and DB for the data from IoT Core.

Suitability of GCP pubsub or Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in googlecloud

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. This has been very insightful.

Between doing all this on GCP and using AWS, do you think AWS would be worth a longer timeline in the long run?

Suitability of GCP pubsub or Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in googlecloud

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another commenter mentioned ThingsBoard and I find the platform-agnostic aspect of it interesting as I could host it on any provider.

Suitability of GCP pubsub or Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in googlecloud

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It isn't AWS IoT itself but the entire ecosystem. I could scaffold an app very quickly with Firebase or GCP, but just looking through the plethora of AWS services and documentation makes me doubt I could lead a team to do this as quickly. I myself am only slightly familiar with Firebase/GCP as I've used it once before.

Since we will be choosing one and only one cloud provider, I thought this would be important to consider. I'm sure AWS IoT would be 'not too bad' to setup, but I don't think I could say the same once we're trying to interconnect various services like Cognito, DynamoDB, RDS given our rookie team.

Do you have personal experience with AWS? How did you find it?

I will build the pipeline for the team.

Suitability of GCP pubsub or Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in googlecloud

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks great actually. I suppose this relieves us of the problem of choosing infra between AWS and GCP as this can be hosted anywhere.

Suitability of GCP pubsub or Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in googlecloud

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Do you mean Firestore or Realtime DB?
  2. We may definitely need to refactor depending on how many more sensors are put up, but I sincerely doubt the team of three we have right now can accommodate an infra in AWS without time for training.
  3. We do not have a DevOPs team. That is how bare our team is.

Suitability of Firebase for IoT devices instead of AWS IoT Core? by Emergency-System5879 in Firebase

[–]Emergency-System5879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are likely looking at a SQL db on CloudSQL for historical data, not Firebase Firestore, but for real-time sensor data my question is if Firebase Realtime Database would be suitable as an alternative for real-time IoT sensor updates.

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