IoT platform vs AWS IoT Core: the real cost of building from scratch
AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, and other hyperscaler primitives are not a full IoT platform. Here is what they actually give you, what they leave you to build, and how long it takes.
Technical writing from the team behind OmniCloud: controller and protocol decisions, battery arithmetic, multi-tenant patterns, and what we have learned running a production IoT stack since 2023.
AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, and other hyperscaler primitives are not a full IoT platform. Here is what they actually give you, what they leave you to build, and how long it takes.
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