AWS IoT Management Console
AWS IoT Management Console lets you access and manage AWS IoT through a simple and intuitive web-based user interface. This web console can be found at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iotv2/home. If you have an active AWS account, you should access a form of AWS IoT Management Console. A screen of AWS IoT Management Console is shown in the following screenshot:
In AWS IoT Management Console, we can manage all IoT devices. This portal provides several features, as follows:
- Dashboard: This shows a summary of AWS IoT usage statistics
- Connect: This provides information on how to connect to AWS IoT
- Registry: This is used to register your new IoT device or to manage existing IoT devices
- Security: This configures AWS IoT and IoT devices
- Rules: This manages all rules for AWS IoT
- Test: This provides a test tool to evaluate your AWS IoT platform
You can see these menus in the following screenshot:
You will probably get different menus on the dashboard. You can change your AWS region in order to get full menus by clicking the menu on the top-right of the dashboard.
We will work with AWS IoT Management Console to manage our IoT projects in the next section.