AWS Certificates, Policies & Rules

This step will guide on to setup your AWS Iot Core. To connect successfully to AWS using MQTT its required to:

1. Generate the certificates
2. Create a Thing
3. Add a policy

Policies and Rules

To correctly create the certificates, policies and rules please follow the guide from amazon found here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/register-device.html

AWS Root Certificates

The image below shows the generated certificates used in our guide. Note that the public key isn’t used (not highlighted).

Root CA for AWS

You can find the AWS Root CA certificate at amazons website and in our guide we are using the VeriSign root CA https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/managing-device-certs.html

Scroll down to Server Authentication and click on the VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary G5 root CA certificate as highlighted below.