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AWS IoT Greengrass

Definition

AWS's managed edge runtime and deployment orchestration service. Handles model packaging, versioning, and lifecycle management for edge devices without requiring persistent connectivity. Uses mutual TLS via device certificates for cloud-to-edge communication.

Role in offline-first AI architectures

IoT Greengrass serves as the managed cloud-to-edge bridge — the deployment orchestration layer that transfers quantized model artifacts (GGUF format) from S3 to edge devices, manages model versions, and handles device lifecycle. Connectivity is not required to be persistent; deployments complete when connectivity becomes available.

Key properties

• Mutual TLS via device certificates for secure cloud-edge communication
• Model transfer from S3 to edge devices
• Deployment orchestration without persistent connectivity
• Device lifecycle management (versioning, rollback)

Seen in

• sources/2026-07-22-aws-architecting-offline-first-generative-ai-applications-for-edge-deployments — deployment bridge in the three-layer offline-first AI architecture (cloud model factory → Greengrass → edge inference stack).