Amazon's IoT Strategy @ExpoDX #IoT #IIoT #M2M #AI #API #SmartCities

Amazon's IoT Strategy: A Force to Be Reckoned With Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT - especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic investments of its Venture group, strategic partnerships with 50 major consumer package goods companies and the 50-70 million current Prime customers to become a dominant force in IoT. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Kocher, founder and managing director of Grey Heron, discussed how Amazon does not just want to dominate the back-end cloud storage, compute and analysis capabilities for IoT data. This is not an incremental, small potatoes effort.