AWS Chief predicts IoT devices will increasingly become customers’ on-prem infrastructure. AWS CEO Andy Jassy predicts that as more workloads move to the public IaaS cloud, companies will reduce the number of servers they will manage and the new definition of on-premises infrastructure will increasingly be Internet of Things (IoT) devices. “More and more companies are deploying connect IoT devices,” he notes, from factories, ships, cars, oil rigs and agricultural machines. “Every place they have assets, they want to be able to collect and analyze data.” +MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: | A peek inside Amazon’s cloud – from global scale to custom silicon | + The problem, Jassy says, is that many of these devices tend to be relatively limited in their capabilities with a very small amount of CPU and disk. “There are times when you don’t want to make the roundtrip to the cloud and back,” he says, for assets that live in places without internet connectivity, or for processing that needs to be done with very low latencies. Amazon launched AWS Greengrass today as an answer to this problem. Greengrass is a collection of software capabilities that customers and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) can use to embed Lambda compute and other services, such as messaging into IoT devices. Lambda is AWS’s event-driving computing platform that executes compute tasks triggered by events. The idea is that Greengrass-enabled devices can execute code locally using AWS programs, then when appropriate, the data can be sent to the cloud for storage and broader analysis. + Press release announcing Greengrass explains. + OEMs will be able to use Greengrass code or software development kits (SDK) to implant the functionality directly into devices, or customers can upload the software into existing devices, such as a Rasberry Pi. Greengrass also allows devices to send messages to other devices and back and forth to the cloud. “Customers want their IoT devices to be able to perform computing tasks and process data locally, functioning as a seamless extension of their AWS environment,” explains Marco Argenti, vice president, Mobile and IoT at AWS. “AWS Greengrass makes this possible by putting a ‘mini AWS,’ a select set of AWS capabilities, inside connected devices.” Peter Christy, an analyst at 451, said Greesgrass is an innovative way to extend Amazon’s cloud edge into IoT devices, especially those that need to be able to perform some compute capacity without a network connection. Greengrass is in limited preview. Customers can connect up to three devices per year to Greengrass for free; for up to 10,000 devices customers can pay $0.16 per device per month, or pay $1.49 per year. Related video: Related content news Nvidia unveils new Blackwell systems, accelerates release of Spectrum-X networking The systems, announced at Computex in Taipei, will power what the company calls ‘AI factories’. By Lynn Greiner Jun 02, 2024 4 mins Generative AI GPUs news Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan The city state is looking at greener energy sources and wants to make every aspect of data center energy consumption, from cooling to coding, more efficient. By John Leyden May 31, 2024 4 mins Energy Efficiency Data Center Design Data Center Management news Everyone but Nvidia joins forces for new AI interconnect Hyperscalers and chip makers, including AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel and Microsoft, are partnering to develop a high-speed chip interconnect to rival Nvidia’s NVLink technology. By Andy Patrizio May 30, 2024 4 mins CPUs and Processors Data Center news AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service Cisco Meraki devices are also part of fixed 5G wireless services from T-Mobile and Verizon. By Michael Cooney May 30, 2024 3 mins 5G Wireless Security WAN PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe