Supported actions to receive data and trigger actions in AWS IoT Events

AWS IoT Events can trigger actions when it detects a specified event or transition event. You can define built-in actions to use a timer or set a variable, or send data to other AWS resources. Learn how to configure and customize these actions to create automated responses to your various IoT events.

Note

When you define an action in a detector model, you can use expressions for parameters that are string data type. For more information, see Expressions.

AWS IoT Events supports the following actions that let you use a timer or set a variable:

• setTimer to create a timer.

• resetTimer to reset the timer.

• clearTimer to delete the timer.

• setVariable to create a variable.

AWS IoT Events supports the following actions that let you work with AWS services:

• iotTopicPublish to publish a message on an MQTT topic.

• iotEvents to send data to AWS IoT Events as an input value.

• iotSiteWise to send data to an asset property in AWS IoT SiteWise.

• dynamoDB to send data to an Amazon DynamoDB table.

• dynamoDBv2 to send data to an Amazon DynamoDB table.

• firehose to send data to an Amazon Data Firehose stream.

• lambda to invoke an AWS Lambda function.

• sns to send data as a push notification.

• sqs to send data to an Amazon SQS queue.