Hi Alex,

   Does this involve "Lambda functions"? Could a cell modem like a Ublox
R401M talk to your server securely?

-Pete (AWS illiterate)

On 2/18/19 6:41 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed wrote:
> I took advantage of the free AWS Cloud hosting offer to set up a little 
> Ubuntu 18 server instance on which to run an MQTT server 
> (https://aws.amazon.com/free) and some other things.
>
> You can get 12 months of a small (1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage) virtual 
> instance running Ubuntu. It's perfect for an MQTT server.
>
> If you'd like to use it for MQTT experiments, please let me know. I will 
> provide you the hostname and the  SSL cert. I used the following to get 
> mosquitto set up with SSL: http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mosquitto-tls/
>
> I will be using this MQTT server as a way of simplifying my "NHL Goal Light" 
> project. Instead of having the ESP8266 "IOT power switch" module try to parse 
> the JSON from the nhl website (it sucks at it due to memory leaks), I will 
> offload that to my AWS instance.  This way all the ESP8266 has to do is 
> subscribe, and this can be handled easily in C++ vs what I have been doing in 
> micropython.
>
> Alex
>

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