Is Particle.io right for my project

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I’m investigating different platforms for a near-real-time audio recording device. It will transmit FLAC data to the cloud (we are using AWS) via a 3g cellular network. This will consume around 1 to 2 GB of data per device per month. I was wondering:

  • Is it simple to bypass the Particle.io cloud? Obviously is not made for my use case.
  • Is connectivity to AWS IoT available (from these forums it looks non-existent)?
  • Replacing the Particle SIM card a different provider seems like it should be trivial. Is there anything I should be aware of? I.e. is there any locks in place to prevent me doing this?

Thanks in advance.

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If you want to bypass the Particle cloud (which in itself is simple) you’d need to take care of data encryption (which is - IIRC - required in order to talk to AWS IoT) yourself as it’s not natively supported on these devices and that’s not a trivial task.

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Thanks for that. That puts the the Particle boards down the list of possible candidates.

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The hardware on the upcoming Particle Mesh boards does feature HW encryption, but it’s not clear yet if and how user applications may be able to use this feature.