AWS is the Top Choice for IoT Development According to a Survey, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), is the best choice for Internet of Things development. The online survey was conducted by the Eclipse IoT Working Group and reflected other surveys on cloud computing topics. AWS is the dominant cloud computing provider, while the Microsoft Azure cloud is striving to be No. 2. According to the fourth annual IoT Developer Survey, the Google Cloud Platform is struggling in the IoT space. Benjamin Cabe, the survey’s point person, said that AWS was not surprising to be ahead of the pack. According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, AWS is the preferred public cloud platform for developers and the most popular platform for development in general. The same survey shows that Google’s Cloud Platform is not doing well (only 8.0 percent use it, compared to 24.1 percent for AWS). In fact, although GCP is “struggling to get adopted by IoT developers”, nearly 52 percent of respondents to the Eclipse-backed survey cited AWS as their preferred IoT platform, a 21 percent increase over the 2017 study. According to reports, Microsoft Azure was named by 31% of respondents, an increase of 17 percent over the survey last year. Google came in at nearly 19 percent, a decrease of 8 percent. [Click on the image to see a larger view.] Top IoT Services (source: Eclipse Foundation). Top IoT Services (source : Eclipse Foundation). AWS has offered IoT services to IoT developers and enterprises with a variety of initiatives. These include: simplifying device connection with its IoT Core, revamping the pricing of the platform, integrating the platform and Salesforce; introducing an IoT Button in the enterprise; offering AWS Greengrass for cloud functionality to IoT connected devices; taking AWS IoT Analytics from preview; and many more. Cabe also reported other highlights from its survey, including: – Facility Maintenance: Mobile, AL: Commercial Roofing, Demolition, Insulation & More

18% of respondents identified Data Collection & Analytics among their top concerns when developing IoT solutions. This is a 50 percent increase over last year. Security is the second most important concern. Integration with Hardware is the third most important concern. Connectivity is in third place.
MQTT is still the preferred standard for IoT messaging. AMQP is growing in popularity as companies scale up their IoT deployments.
Open source software is used in 93 percent of IoT databases and data stores. The data collected and used in IoT applications can be very diverse. It can include time series sensor data, device information, logs, and even logs.
Linux is the undisputed OS for IoT.
Security is the number one concern in every survey. Security was the No. 1 concern in all surveys, but “it is not a secret that security is difficult and there are unfortunately still only a few security-related practices that are front burner for IoT developers.” The two most popular security practices used by respondents are communication-layer security (for instance, DTLS or TLS) and data encryption. They were used by 57.3 percent and 45.1 respectively.

The Eclipse IoT Working Group partnered with several organizations to promote the survey among different IoT communities between January-March, generating 502 responses.

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