- [Alana] Hi! I'm Alana Layton, Senior Cloud Technologist at AWS. And I want to welcome you to Industrial IoT fundamentals on AWS. You may be familiar with IoT devices and terminology, but when we put that extra keyword industrial before IoT, the discussion evolves. So, while you may be familiar with smart homes and connected appliances and wearable health monitors, you might not know how IoT plays a part at the industrial level, with assembly lines and supply chains. So, in this course, we will follow a scenario. Let's say you get hired at a manufacturing company that manufactures the best-selling cupcakes and doughnuts. Kids love these doughnuts. Adults love these doughnuts. And the demand is so high, the company often sells out, and can't keep products on the shelves. To solve this issue, the company CTO has a vision to adopt Industry 4.0 practices and use the AWS Cloud. In fact, they're currently using the cloud for some of their other projects. So, they're looking forward to learning about what they can do with AWS's industrial IoT technology. Your company got into a multi-year agreement with AWS to help them transform and innovate. And they're hiring lots of people with an IoT and cloud background, you being one of them. The company needs to upskill all the employees they're hiring and reduce the knowledge gap needed to build an industrial IoT solution. And you want to be at the forefront of all of this. And by using this course, Raf, Neel, and myself will help you get there. Also, my colleague Russ created hands-on exercises to get you familiar with some of the key AWS IoT services. In this course, we'll start with an overview of industrial IoT, including a discussion on its challenges and its value, and understand how it differs from IoT. We'll also be looking at sample architectures and an idea of what a connected factory might look like from the technology perspective. We'll also discuss some of the key AWS IoT services, such as AWS IoT SiteWise, AWS IoT Core, and AWS IoT Greengrass. Then, in Week 3, we'll move on to extracting value from the data that we're collecting through those services. We'll be talking about industrial machine learning services, and some of the key data analytics services. Then, in the final week, we'll talk about something that is top of mind for every industrial IoT customer, and that is security. How to secure edge devices, cloud resources, and some of the best practices you can follow in doing so. By the end of the course, you'll be able to understand the core pieces of industrial IoT architecture from the sensors in a factory to gateways, to operational data stores, and how to work with these technologies. You'll also have a clear sense of how to extract the value out of your data, and understand the capabilities and services that can help you do so. You'll also be getting hands-on in building out an industrial IoT architecture using simulated data, and using AWS IoT Greengrass and AWS IoT SiteWise to move the simulated data into the cloud. This course is for individuals who are interested in the industrial IoT landscape, but don't have the necessary skillset to get hands-on just yet. You ideally have some IT knowledge and an understanding of IoT, and cloud computing, but you're new to industrial IoT. So, if that's you, and you're interested, stay tuned for more industrial IoT content. From all of us here at AWS, we hope you learn something. And most of all, we hope you have fun. Thanks, and see you soon.