<story><title>AWS IoT Beta</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchrisa</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s important to highlight open source alternatives to AWS products. If you are looking at AWS IoT and wishing you could run it on your own servers, the Couchbase Mobile stack is open source and used for mission critical deployments by customers like General Electric, for IoT applications: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slideshare.net&amp;#x2F;Couchbase&amp;#x2F;offline-first-how-ge-integrated-couchbase-mobile-in-less-than-90-days-couchbase-connect-2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slideshare.net&amp;#x2F;Couchbase&amp;#x2F;offline-first-how-ge-int...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.couchbase.com&amp;#x2F;mobile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.couchbase.com&amp;#x2F;mobile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot going on in this space and we are a general purpose database. If you&amp;#x27;re looking for native open source implementations that give you access to the whole stack, and interop with other tech like PouchDB and IBM Cloudant...</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS IoT Beta</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harshaw</author><text>So, my extremely quick read is this a framework for hiding stuff that consumes data from internet of thing appliances and makes some of that data available via shadows.&lt;p&gt;I wish amazon would do a better job explaining why this new thing is better than the last new thing from amazon.  Many services feel close and similar until you dig into the target use cases.  Even the FAQ doesn&amp;#x27;t have a list of target use cases.</text></comment>