Announced in 2017, AWS Greengrass aims to ease the task of setting up and managing IoT systems. Version 2.0 adds new developer capabilities, including revamped command-line interface and support for adding and removing pre-built components. Additionally, its edge runtime has been open sourced and is now available on GitHub.
AWS Greengrass has two main parts: an IoT edge runtime and a cloud service. Together they aim to provide IoT device fleets with local compute, messaging, and data management capabilities. For example, you can use Greengrass to run lambda functions locally on IoT devices; enable ML inference; send messages between devices; deploy, run, and manage Docker containers, and more.
