Amazon FreeRTOS is a new operating system for microcontroller-based IoT devices

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Most of those devices have very basic CPUs and run Linux or a similar operating system.They tend to run some version of the FreeRTOS operating system and kernel.As AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced at the company’s re:Invent conference today, the company thought about this issue and decided to build its own operating system in the form of Amazon FreeRTOS.This is a microcontroller operating system that AWS says is meant to simplify the development and security of these very basic IoT devices.Amazon FreeRTOS is, as the name implies, essentially an extension of the FreeRTOS operating system that adds libraries for local and cloud connectivity.

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