IoT Thing

An IoT Thing in AWS represents a digital identity for a physical device within AWS IoT Core. It allows you to manage, monitor, and interact with connected devices by defining attributes, metadata, and configurations. This resource is central to organizing devices, enabling secure communication, and integrating with IoT rules and policies.

aws.iot_thing

Fields

TitleIDTypeData TypeDescription
_keycorestring
account_idcorestring
attributescorehstoreThe thing attributes.
billing_group_namecorestringThe name of the billing group the thing belongs to.
default_client_idcorestringThe default MQTT client ID. For a typical device, the thing name is also used as the default MQTT client ID. Although we don’t require a mapping between a thing's registry name and its use of MQTT client IDs, certificates, or shadow state, we recommend that you choose a thing name and use it as the MQTT client ID for the registry and the Device Shadow service. This lets you better organize your IoT fleet without removing the flexibility of the underlying device certificate model or shadows.
tagscorehstore
thing_arncorestringThe ARN of the thing to describe.
thing_idcorestringThe ID of the thing to describe.
thing_namecorestringThe name of the thing.
thing_type_namecorestringThe thing type name.
versioncoreint64The current version of the thing record in the registry. To avoid unintentional changes to the information in the registry, you can pass the version information in the expectedVersion parameter of the UpdateThing and DeleteThing calls.