I was at Reinvent last week and attended a few of the IoT presentations. I have no commercial interest in IoT but am interested in tinkering with IoT just as a hobby.<p>I won a Intel Edison &#x2F; Seeedstudio IoT kit with an edison already configured with a key pair for aws usage.  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0168KU5FK" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0168KU5FK</a>  So I guess I will get some experience with this.<p>They announced both device SDKs and the inclusion of IoT into their standard SDK.  I haven&#x27;t downloaded the latest python sdk (boto3) yet to check if the IoT functions have been added yet.<p>Their documentation seems to make this more complicated that it should be but I also was handed a Amazon IoT button <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;iot&#x2F;button&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;iot&#x2F;button&#x2F;</a> and was able to connect it to my aws account and my home wifi in 2 minutes.  I have it sending sns messages to me when I click it. So now I have a reference project that can be inspected for quicker learning.<p>If you can, get yourself a IoT button from amazon to play with if you are interested in their IoT offerings.<p>Once boto3 has the IoT sdk I will write a mac os x client for acting both like a device and subscribing to devices.