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Connecting a device to Greengrass Core

The steps required to connect an IoT device with AWS Greengrass are very similar to those we performed during the setup of the AWS IoT Core. In this section, we are going to extend our dummy IoT device (Ubuntu Server on a virtual machine) with Greengrass using the AWS Management Console:

1. To get started, from the AWS IoT console, select the Greengrass option from the navigation pane.
2. Setting up Greengrass involves a three-step process starting with creating and configuring a Greengrass group, followed by adding a Greengrass Core to the group and finally, by adding the IoT device to the group. To get going, click on the Get Started option under the Define a Greengrass Group tile.
3. On the Set up your Greengrass ...