
AWS IoT
- Features
- Ease of use
- Ease of management
- Quality of support
- Affordability
- Market presence
- Information technology and software
- Banking and insurance
- Healthcare and life sciences
What is AWS IoT
Broad IoT service portfolio
Scalable device connectivity options
Security and identity primitives
Complex service selection and setup
AWS ecosystem dependency
Cost management can be nontrivial
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go
Free tier / trial:
- AWS Free Tier for AWS IoT Core: 12 months from account creation (example free monthly usage quotas called out on the AWS IoT Core pricing page). Specific free-usage quotas shown on the official page: 2,250,000 minutes of connection; 500,000 messages; 225,000 Registry or Device Shadow operations; 250,000 rules triggered and 250,000 actions applied. (See IoT Core pricing page.)
- AWS IoT Device Management free tier: 50 remote actions per month (12 months free tier applies from account creation).
- AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk: free for up to 100,000 messages during first 6 months after account creation (region exclusions apply).
Example costs (selected, region-dependent; official page gives region-specific rates and examples):
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AWS IoT Core — Connectivity (example region rate): $0.08 per 1,000,000 minutes of connection (used in examples on the IoT Core pricing page).
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AWS IoT Core — Messaging (MQTT/HTTP): $1.00 per 1,000,000 messages for the first 1 billion messages (example shown for Europe (Ireland) region). Messages metered in 5 KB increments.
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AWS IoT Core — Device Shadow & Registry: $1.25 per 1,000,000 operations (example shown for Canada (Central) region). Device Shadow/registry operations metered per 1 KB increments.
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AWS IoT Core — Rules Engine: $0.15 per 1,000,000 rules triggered and $0.15 per 1,000,000 actions applied (example shown for Canada (Central) region). Rules are metered per rule triggered and per action executed (minimum one action).
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AWS IoT Core — LoRaWAN messaging (example US East (N. Virginia) rate): $2.30 per 1,000,000 messages (first 1B messages shown in example).
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AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk (US East example): $6.00 per 1,000,000 messages; BLE location lookups: first 835 lookups/month free, additional lookups priced as Device Location tiered pricing (page describes $1.00 per 1K locations starting tier for BLE lookups).
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AWS IoT Device Management — Bulk registration: $0.10 per 1,000 things registered (example used to compute $1.00 for 10,000 devices).
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AWS IoT Device Management — Device Jobs / remote actions: $0.003 per remote action (first tier); volume tier shown: first 250,000 remote actions at $0.003 per action, over 250,000 at $0.0015 per action (example on the Device Management pricing page).
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AWS IoT Device Management — Fleet Indexing queries: $0.05 per 10,000 queries (example calculation shown).
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AWS IoT Device Management — Secure Tunneling: $1.00 per tunnel created (example shown).
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AWS IoT Device Management — Managed integrations: example subscription charges shown in the documentation (example values used on the page: hub-connected device subscription $0.01/device-month, cloud-to-cloud device $0.02/device-month, hub $0.15/month in the published example). (Metering and tiers apply; see official page for region/tier details.)
Discounts / tiering notes (from official pages):
- Several components use tiered/volume pricing (examples: Device Jobs remote-action tiers; messaging has tier/volume behavior across message volumes and different transports such as LoRaWAN/Sidewalk).
- Many prices are region-specific — the official AWS IoT pricing pages give per-region examples and instruct customers to consult region pricing details and the AWS Pricing Calculator for an estimate.
(These costs and free-tier statements are taken directly from the official AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management pricing pages.)