This session will show you how to get started quickly by covering key architectural design concepts and demonstrating the use of the AWS SDKs to simplify creating powerful applications for the always-on world that connects beyond the desktop.

1. Mobile Applications and
the Internet of Things
AWS Lambda & AWS Cognito
Adam Larter, Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

2. Business
101 Technical
201 Technical
301 Technical
401 Technical
Session Grading

3. Agenda
• Challenges when building Mobile/IoT applications
• Discuss how AWS services help meet the challenges
• Dive deep on AWS Cognito and AWS Lambda
• IoT and Mobile demonstrations
• Guest speaker from CarSales.com.au

4. IoT & Mobile demo
“Beaconisis”

5. Beaconisis V1.0
• Uses Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) Beacons
Received signal strength is converted to approx. distance in meters
• Multiple Raspberry PIs create a ‘geo fence’
Each RPI sends telemetry data to a Kinesis stream in real-time
• Lambda function bound to Kinesis stream
Processes records in real-time and makes data available to mobile app
to trilaterate the position of the ‘target’ relative to the detectors

6. Beaconisis V1.0 – Detetctor flow
Kinesis stream
Lambda
Function
DynamoDB

7. Beaconisis V1.0 – Detetctor flow
Detector 3
Detector 2Detector 1
Kinesis stream
Lambda
Function
DynamoDB

8. Beaconisis V1.0 – Detetctor flow
Detector 3
Detector 2Detector 1
Kinesis stream
Lambda
Function
DynamoDB

9. Beaconisis V1.0 – Detetctor flow
Detector 3
Detector 2Detector 1
Kinesis stream
Lambda
Function
DynamoDB
Lambda function filters the detection
data, applies a Kalman filter to smooth
the readings & updates DynamoDB

10. Beaconisis V1.0 – Detetctor flow
Detector 3
Detector 2Detector 1
Kinesis stream
Lambda
Function
DynamoDB
Lambda function filters the detection
data, applies a Kalman filter to smooth
the readings & updates DynamoDB

11. Beaconisis V1.0 – ‘Tile’ beacon
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/tile-android-app,news-20027.html

12. Beaconisis V1.0 – Sample payload

13. Beaconisis V1.0 – Sample payload
Signal Strength
measured at distance of
1 meter

14. Beaconisis V1.0 – Sample payload
Signal Strength
measured at distance of
1 meter
Received Signal
Strength Indicator =
current measurement

15. Beaconisis V1.0 – Web page

16. Beaconisis V1.0 – Mobile App flow
DynamoDB
Cognito
Identity

17. Beaconisis V1.0 – Mobile App flow
DynamoDB
Cognito
Identity

18. Beaconisis V1.0 – Mobile App flow
DynamoDB
Using trilateration to determine the
approximate location of the target within
the boundary created by the detectors
Cognito
Identity

19. IoT & Mobile demo
“Beaconisis”

20. IoT & Mobile demo
“RFID Reader with Face Detection”

22. Pawrus V1.0 – Hardware
www.adafruit.com

23. Pawrus V1.0 – Hardware
www.adafruit.com

24. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito

25. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito
Blink LED to
indicate Ready

26. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito
Blink LED to
indicate Ready
RFID detected
Capture Image to
local storage
Steady LED to
indicate image
captured Ok

27. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito
Blink LED to
indicate Ready
RFID detected
Capture Image to
local storage
RFID goes out of range
Steady LED to
indicate image
captured Ok

28. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito
Blink LED to
indicate Ready
RFID detected
Capture Image to
local storage
RFID goes out of range
Steady LED to
indicate image
captured Ok
Upload image to
S3 with headers
eg: RFID

29. RFID reader - Flow
Initialise Cognito
Blink LED to
indicate Ready
RFID detected
Capture Image to
local storage
RFID goes out of range
Steady LED to
indicate image
captured Ok
Upload image to
S3 with headers
eg: RFID
Blink LED to
indicate done

30. RFID reader – Upload Response Architecture
Mobile
App
S3 Upload
Bucket
Cognito
Identity
Lambda
Function
SNS Topic
TOPIC
SNS

31. RFID reader – Upload Response Architecture
Mobile
App
S3 Upload
Bucket
Cognito
Identity
Lambda
Function
Image uploaded to S3
SNS Topic
TOPIC
SNS

32. RFID reader – Upload Response Architecture
Mobile
App
S3 Upload
Bucket
Cognito
Identity
Lambda
Function
Image uploaded to S3
SNS Topic
TOPIC
SNS

33. RFID reader – Upload Response Architecture
Mobile
App
S3 Upload
Bucket
Cognito
Identity
Lambda
Function
Image uploaded to S3
Push
notification
from GCM
SNS Topic
TOPIC
SNS
Guest access

34. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

35. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

36. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

37. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
Capture Image to
local filesystem
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

38. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
Capture Image to
local filesystem
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

39. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
Capture Image to
local filesystem
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC

40. Mobile App
SQS Queue
RFID reader – Command architecture
Capture Image to
local filesystem
S3 Upload
Bucket
SNS Topic
TOPIC
Push
notification
from GCM

41. IoT & Mobile demo
“RFID Reader with Face Detection”

42. IoT & Mobile challenges
• Devices constrained in at
least one computing dimension
• Regularly deployed at counts
in the thousands, millions or more
• May have minimal human interface or
human operator interaction
• Non-zero amount of compute – not just a sensor

43. • Authorisation
Determine if a device should be allowed to do something
• Telemetry
Remotely determining what a device senses
• Commands
Issuing commands to the remote device
IoT & Mobile challenges

44. Mobile &
IoT
IoT & Mobile challenges

45. Mobile &
IoT
Gap
IoT & Mobile challenges

46. Mobile &
IoT
Global Ubiquity
$0 Inbound Data
Elasticity
Purpose Built Services
Global
Object
Store
Audit
&
Auth
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
SNS
How AWS meets Mobile & IoT challenges

47. How AWS meets Mobile & IoT challenges
• Identity & data synchronisation
Determine if a device or user is allowed to do something
Share state between multiple instances of the app
• Event-driven architectures
Running code in response to events in the system
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Lambda

48. How AWS meets Mobile & IoT challenges
• Identity & Access Management
Secure, fine-grained control of cloud resources
• Telemetry
Remotely determining what a device senses
High-velocity data streams
• Commands
Issuing commands to the remote device
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon SQS
Amazon IAM

49. How AWS meets Mobile & IoT challenges
• Shared data store
High throughput NoSQL store
• Push notification & synchronisation
Notifying users of change in the system
• Media & object store
Highly durable object storage
Amazon SNS
Mobile Push
Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB

50. AWS SDKs

51. AWS SDKs

52. Amazon Cognito
Identity management, secure access and shared state

53. Amazon Cognito – Authorisation
• Simplifies security – Integrated with IAM Roles
Fully integrated with IAM for secure & powerful
fine-grained access control
• Supports multiple Login Providers
Easily integrate with major login providers (FB, Google+,
Login with Amazon) and supports OIDC for authentication
or create your own identity provider
• Supports un-authenticated ‘guests’
Your users can be authorised anonymously if you choose

54. Amazon Cognito – data synchronisation
• Cross-device and Cross-platform Push Sync
Synchronize user’s data across devices and platforms – including
actively pushing changes to all devices when one updates the shared
data
• Cognito Streams feature
Automatically stream changes in user data to
Amazon Kinesis for processing
• Sync Trigger - Cognito Event
Execute a Lambda function to intercept changes in Cognito dataset
• Programmatic access to sync store
Run back-end processes that modify in-app data
Just
released

55. DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Cognito Identity
Broker
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

56. DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Cognito Identity
Broker
Login OAUTH/OpenID
Access Token
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

57. DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Cognito Identity
Broker
Login OAUTH/OpenID
Access Token
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Access Token
Pool ID
Role ARNs
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

58. DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Cognito Identity
Broker
Login OAUTH/OpenID
Access Token
Cognito ID,
Temp
Credentials
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Access Token
Pool ID
Role ARNs
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

59. User ID
(Temp
Credentials)
DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Access
to AWS Services
Cognito Identity
Broker
Login OAUTH/OpenID
Access Token
Cognito ID,
Temp
Credentials
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Access Token
Pool ID
Role ARNs
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

60. User ID
(Temp
Credentials)
DynamoDB
End Users
Developer
App w/SDK
Access
to AWS Services
Cognito Identity
Broker
Login OAUTH/OpenID
Access Token
Cognito ID,
Temp
Credentials
S3
Amazon Lambda
Cognito Sync
Store
AWS
Management
Console
Access Token
Pool ID
Role ARNs
Amazon Cognito Security Architecture

61. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Cognito
Identity
Broker

62. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Cognito
Identity
Broker

63. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Cognito Sync
Store
Dataset

64. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Cognito Sync
Store
Dataset

65. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Cognito Sync
Store
Dataset

66. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Dataset

67. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Dataset
Platform Application
(SNS)

68. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Mobile App
receives change
Dataset
Platform Application
(SNS)

69. Amazon Cognito Push Synchronisation
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Mobile App
receives change
Dataset

70. Amazon Cognito Sync Demo

71. Using Cognito in your Mobile App

72. Using Cognito in your Mobile App
Just tell Cognito your
Identity Pool’s ARN
NEW!

73. Using Cognito in your Mobile App
Simply instantiate the AmazonDynamoDBClient
and specify your Cognito provider as the
credential provider in the constructor

74. Using Cognito in your Web page (Javascript)

75. Using Cognito in your Web page (Javascript)

76. Using Cognito in your IoT device (Python)

77. Using Cognito in your IoT device (Python)

78. Amazon Lambda
Zero-administration compute

79. Amazon Lambda
is connective tissue for AWS services

80. Amazon S3 Amazon DynamoDB Amazon SNS Amazon Kinesis Amazon Cognito
Amazon Lambda
is connective tissue for AWS services

81. Amazon Lambda
• Zero Administration
Focus on business logic, not infrastructure.
Just upload your code & Lambda handles everything else
• Auto Scaling
Lambda scales the infrastructure as needed to
match the event rate and pay as you go
• Bring your own Code
Node.JS available now with other languages to follow.
Create threads and processes, run batch scripts or other exe’s

82. Amazon Lambda – Hot off the press!
• Synchronous events
Respond to application calls with low-latency real-time functions
• Trigger Lambda Functions Using Amazon SNS
Respond dynamically and automatically to SNS notifications
• Multiple Lambda Functions for Kinesis & DynamoDB
Streams
Attach one or more Lambda functions to handle stream events
Just
released

83. Demo: Setting up a Lambda function

84. Amazon Cognito & Amazon Lambda together
Cognito Events – “Sync Trigger”
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Lambda
Function

85. Amazon Cognito & Amazon Lambda together
Cognito Events – “Sync Trigger”
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Lambda
Function

86. Sync Trigger
Amazon Cognito & Amazon Lambda together
Cognito Events – “Sync Trigger”
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Kinesis
Stream
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function

87. Sync Trigger
Amazon Cognito & Amazon Lambda together
Cognito Events – “Sync Trigger”
Mobile App
initiates change
Cognito Sync
Store
Kinesis
Stream
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Synchronous call
Synchronous
call

88. Demo: Amazon Cognito
& Amazon Lambda

89. Greg Collins
CarSales.com.au (now with new and improved Pitchi.com)
Development Manager

90. What is Pitchi.com
• Entertainment Selling
• Hub for Entrepreneurs
– Craftsmen
– Artists
– Creators

91. Pitchi.com Web Site
EC2 Instance
Web
App
Server
Internet
EC2 Instance
Composition Layer
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Publisher
EC2 Instance
Subscriber
SQS
SNS

92. Pitchi.com Web Site Post Lambda
EC2 Instance
Web
App
Server
Internet
EC2 Instance
Composition Layer
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Publisher
SNS

93. Pitchi.com Video Creation
EC2 Instance
Web
App
Server
Internet EC2 Instance
Composition Layer
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
EC2 Instance
Subscriber
SQS SNS
S3 Bucket
Elastic Transcoder

94. Pitchi.com Video Creation Post Lambda
Internet
Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)
EC2 Instance
Resource Layer
S3 Bucket
Elastic Transcoder

95. Greg Collins
CarSales.com.au (now with new and improved Pitchi.com)
Development Manager

96. Amazon Lambda
• Respond to events raised by AWS services
Eg: Face detection on images
• Implement stream processing
Attach compute to records in a Kinesis stream
• Synchronous function calls
Standard web request/response model
• Perfect for server-less Mobile/IoT apps (& more)
…as you’ve seen in today’s demonstrations!

97. Amazon Cognito
• Secure, Fine-grained access control
Fully integrated with IAM Roles
• Supports multiple Login Providers
FB, G+, AMZ, ‘Roll your own’ or any OIDC source
• Cross-device and Cross-platform
Users access shared data from any device
• Sync Sync Sync!
Push Sync, manual Sync, programmatic Sync and Sync Triggers

98. Amazon Cognito
& Amazon Lambda
The perfect couple!