2. Register your device in the Thing Registry

Before connecting to AWS IoT, you must have your device in the Thing Registry. To do so, use the AWS IoT console or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and follow the steps in the AWS IoT documentation.

Note When creating the AWS IoT Policy to attach to the Thing certificates, make sure you authorize your device to perform all the possible AWS IoT operations (connect, publish, receive, subscribe, get/update the shadow).

To do so, define the policy action as a *. Your policy must be similar to the following:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iot:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

To learn more about AWS IoT policies, see the AWS IoT developer guide.