AWS | Andrew Smith

Using AWS Lambda functions to write to Amazon RDS

In my last post I implemented an AWS IoT scenario that used an IoT rule to write to DynamoDB.

Here we change that rule to one that instead uses a Python Lambda function to write to a database on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance. […] “Using AWS Lambda functions to write to Amazon RDS”

Connecting to AWS IoT Core using Python and MQTT

Eclipse Paho is an open source implementation of the MQTT publish/subscribe messaging protocol that’s frequently used within IoT applications.

Here it’s used to send messages from a Python 3 device client to AWS IoT Core, triggering an IoT Core rule that inserts the message into an AWS DynamoDB […] “Connecting to AWS IoT Core using Python and MQTT”

I’m Andrew Smith and I’m an experienced software professional with an employment history spanning a variety of industries and including blue-chip organisations such as Ford Motor Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IQVIA.

I’m currently architecting and implementing an AWS-based IoT system, including network and security design, RDS database implementation and the provision of high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.

Whilst this website was initially written to document research I was doing throughout the Microsoft SQL Server product suite, it’s now oriented around how best to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver solutions to problems in enterprise computing.