AWS and Canonical publicly release AWS IoT Greengrass as snap software

Amazon Web Services (AWS), together with London-based computer software firm Canonical, has publicly announced the release of ‘AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap’ software, which can run on various Linux distributions. The software is capable of bringing local compute, data caching, sync, messaging, and ML inference capabilities to edge devices, allowing IoT and embedded developers to install the programme effortlessly and start processing with IoT Greengrass in a matter of seconds. An IoT-focused OS, which is built entirely from snaps, allows device manufacturers and system integrators to create an IoT appliance in a week’s time, without compromising security and long-term support.