IoT Disaster Recovery

Functionalities

Following are the functionalities IoT support during a disaster,

• Devices can publish and receive messages to IoT gateway

• Applications can send commands (outbound) to devices

• Applications can update device state i.e. shadows/ twin

• Applications can fetch all the resources (groups,devices and rules) created by them

• Applications can consume messages from endpoints (1) {.annotate}

  1. Application should point to DR SQS endpoint in case of disaster.

Limitations

Following are the limitations during a disaster,

• Applications cannot activate new groups and devices
• Applications cannot create message routing
• Applications cannot get the historical events published before disaster
• Following features are not supported as part of DR currently
  • OTA