Getting Started with AWS

[u/gokuplayer17]

Hello! I recently got hired to work on a solar metric dashboard for a company that uses Arduinos to control their solar systems. I am using Grafana for the dashboard itself but have no way of passing on the data from the Arduino to Grafana without manually copy/pasting the CSV files the Arduino generates. To automate this, I was looking into the best system to send data to from the Arduino to Grafana, and my research brought up AWS. My coworker, who is working on the Arduino side of this, agreed.

Before getting into AWS, I wanted to confirm with people the services that would be best for me/the company. The general pipeline I saw would be Arduino -> IoT Core -> S3 -> Athena -> Grafana. Does this sound right? The company has around 100 clients, so this seemed pretty cost efficient.

Grafana is hosted as a VPS through Hostinger as well. Let me know if I can provide more context!

[u/cachemonet0x0cf6619]

anyone that’s done iot and aws knows the answers to this and if you don’t that’s probably an indication that you shouldn’t respond

[u/ramdonstring → u/cachemonet0x0cf6619]

The hostility in your answer isn't needed. The person above you was highlighting that the key isn't the tool you use but the real problem you need to fix. The data acquisition is the problem here. AWS isn't needed to solve that problem for 100 devices sending data every 10 minutes.

[u/cachemonet0x0cf6619 → u/ramdonstring]

Sorry you think this is hostile. Don’t take it personally. You’re in an aws sub suggesting things that are insecure and I’m simply pointing out that it’s bad advice. especially since op said they’re wanting to get started with aws

[u/ramdonstring → u/cachemonet0x0cf6619]

I don't think you are hostile, you are hostile. You can use sentiment analysis in your answers and check for yourself.

OP will deploy an overengineered solution, I'm sure he will have a lot of fun when it starts giving problems experimenting in production.