AWS IoT Edge runtime that extends cloud capabilities to local devices, enabling them to act locally on data while still using the cloud for management and analytics. Like having a local manager at each location who can make immediate decisions while still reporting to headquarters.
Manufacturing plants use Greengrass to process sensor data locally for real-time quality control, while periodically syncing aggregated data to the cloud for long-term analysis.
AWS IoT Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge are the closest equivalents: both run an edge runtime on local devices to process data, run containers/modules, and manage deployments from the cloud. Google’s closest fit is its edge platform (Google Distributed Cloud Edge) combined with IoT services/partners rather than a single direct Greengrass-like product. OCI does not have a widely adopted, directly comparable edge IoT runtime with the same positioning as Greengrass.