# Learn more about AWS IoT
This topic helps you get familiar with the world of AWS IoT. You can get general information about how IoT solutions are applied in various use cases, training resources, links to social media for AWS IoT and all other AWS services, and a list of services and communication protocols that AWS IoT uses.
## Training resources for AWS IoT
We provide these training courses to help you learn about AWS IoT and how to apply them to your solution design.
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**[Introduction to AWS IoT](https://www.aws.training/learningobject/video?id=16505)**
A video overview of AWS IoT and its core services.
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**[Deep Dive into AWS IoT Authentication and Authorization](https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=42335)**
An advanced course that explores the concepts of AWS IoT authentication and authorization. You will learn how to authenticate and authorize clients to access the AWS IoT control plane and data plane APIs.
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**[Internet of Things Foundation Series](https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/402/internet-of-things-foundation-series)**
A learning path of IoT eLearning modules on different IoT technologies and features.
## AWS IoT resources and guides
These are in-depth technical resources on specific aspects of AWS IoT.
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**[IoT Lens – AWS IoT Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/iot-lens/welcome.html)**
A document that describes the best practices for architecting your IoT applications on AWS.
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**[Designing MQTT Topics for AWS IoT Core](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/designing-mqtt-topics-aws-iot-core/designing-mqtt-topics-aws-iot-core.html)**
A whitepaper that describes the best practices for designing MQTT topics in AWS IoT Core and leveraging AWS IoT Core features with MQTT.
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**[Abstract and introduction](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/device-manufacturing-provisioning/device-manufacturing-provisioning.html)**
A PDF document that describes the different ways that AWS IoT provides to provision large fleets of devices.
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**[AWS IoT Core Device Advisor](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//iot/latest/developerguide/device-advisor.html)**
AWS IoT Core Device Advisor provides pre-built tests that you can use to validate IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity best practices with AWS IoT Core, before deploying devices to production.
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**[AWS IoT Resources](https://aws.amazon.com/iot/resources/)**
IoT-specific resources, such as Technical Guides, Reference Architectures, eBooks, and curated blog posts, presented in a searchable index.
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**[IoT Atlas](https://iotatlas.net)**
Overviews on how to solve common IoT design problems. The *IoT Atlas* provides in-depth looks into the design challenges that you are likely to encounter while developing your IoT solution.
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**[AWS Whitepapers & Guides](https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/?whitepapers-main.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&whitepapers-main.sort-order=desc&awsf.whitepapers-category=categories%23iot)**
Our current collection of whitepapers and guides on AWS IoT and other AWS technologies.
## AWS IoT in social media
These social media channels provide information about AWS IoT and AWS-related topics.
+ [The Internet of Things on AWS IoT – Official Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/)
+ [AWS IoT videos in the Amazon Web Services channel on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/search?query=IoT)
These social media accounts cover all AWS services, including AWS IoT
+ [The Amazon Web Services channel on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/)
+ [Amazon Web Services on Twitter](https://twitter.com/awscloud)
+ [Amazon Web Services on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/amazonwebservices/)
+ [Amazon Web Services on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/amazonwebservices/)
+ [Amazon Web Services on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/)
## AWS services used by the AWS IoT Core rules engine
The AWS IoT Core rules engine can connect to these AWS services.
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**[Amazon DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//dynamodb/)**
Amazon DynamoDB is a scalable, NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable database performance.
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**[Amazon Kinesis](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//kinesis/)**
Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine learning, analytics, and other applications.
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**[AWS Lambda](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//lambda/)**
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from AWS IoT data and events or call it directly from a web or mobile app.
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**[Amazon Simple Storage Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//s3/)**
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) can store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. AWS IoT rules can send data to Amazon S3 for storage.
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**[Amazon Simple Notification Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//sns/)**
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that enables applications, end users, and devices to send and receive notifications from the cloud.
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**[Amazon Simple Queue Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//sqs/)**
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a message queuing service that decouples and scales microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
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**[Amazon OpenSearch Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/latest/developerguide/)**
Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine.
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**[Amazon SageMaker AI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//sagemaker/latest/dg/whatis.html)**
Amazon SageMaker AI can create machine learning (ML) models by finding patterns in your IoT data. The service uses these models to process new data and generate predictions for your application.
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**[Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//cloudwatch/)**
Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution to help set up, manage, and scale your own monitoring systems and infrastructure.
## Communication protocols supported by AWS IoT Core
These topics provide more information about the communication protocols used by AWS IoT. For more information about the protocols used by AWS IoT and connecting devices and services to AWS IoT, see [Connect to AWS IoT Core](connect-to-iot.md).
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**[MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)](http://mqtt.org/)**
The home page of the MQTT.org site where you can find the MQTT protocol specifications. For more information about how AWS IoT supports MQTT, see [MQTT](mqtt.md).
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**[HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Secure)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616)**
Devices and apps can access AWS IoT services by using HTTPS.
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**[LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network)](https://lora-alliance.org/about-lorawan)**
LoRaWAN devices and gateways can connect to AWS IoT Core by using AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.
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**[TLS (Transport Layer Security) v1.3](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/introducing-tls-1-3-support-in-aws-iot-core/)**
The specification of the TLS v1.3 (RFC 5246). AWS IoT uses TLS v1.3 to establish secure connections between devices and AWS IoT.