iOT services, generating certificates

Question

I'm having a lot of trouble getting started with IOT services. I've read all the introductory information and understand how the system works at the high level. I'm now at the point where my hardware partner needs device certificates, and I'm kind of lost in the morass of documentation. How do I create these certificates? Do I need some kind of external CSA or does Amazon provide that? Also, is there any way I can test the iOT services without a physical device (is there some software I can run that simulates a device)? Is there a book or a tutorial that can walk me through this process? The Amazon tutorials seem to jump directly from vague statements about what the system can do, to details that are over my head.

Answer

Check out this whitepaper that goes deeper than docs on the provisioning methods to select from. https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/device-manufacturing-provisioning.pdf

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How do I create certificates in bulk? I see the option in the console to create one certificate at a time, which results in 3 files I have to download. But I need to create hundreds of them. I looked at the aws cli, and I found that it has a command "create-certificate-from-csr", but not just plain create-certificate. I don't know how to create CSRs in bulk either.

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Have you taken a look at this [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-provision.html)? It talks about different ways of provisioning a device.

You don't need a device to interact with AWS IoT Core. All workshops and getting started documentation rely on creating an EC2 instance or a Cloud9 instance. [Check out this tutorial](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-gs-first-thing.html) and find other [workshops using this link](https://workshops.aws/)

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