Alternatives to Google Cloud IoT Core — Where to Migrate?
Google will sunset its IoT Core on August 16, 2023. Some of the edge devices may become unavailable, experts say.
What happened and why the urgency
Last year, Google announced that it would retire the Cloud IoT Core service soon, giving customers one year to migrate. It was also noted that the documentation for the product will no longer be available after August 15, 2023.
Until now, Cloud IoT Core was used by customers for device authentication, communication with the edge, updating configuration, data ingestion, etc. The main components of the product include a device manager and two protocol bridges (MQTT and HTTP) for connecting to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Telemetry data is forwarded to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and can then be used for analysis with other GCP services.
Since the announcement, companies have put their effort into migrating off the platform. Most likely, the majority of them have already either finalized the migration or at least are in the process. Last month, a Reddit user posted a message mentioning 10,000 devices under high load that are still in ongoing migration due to complexity.
So, if you had reasons to avoid moving the IoT workloads until now or your migration failed and you are looking for a better technology option, read our latest article.
Note: Google is not alone in deprecating IoT services. Earlier, IBM decided to discontinue the Watson IoT platform, while SAP has recently shut down its suite previously known as Leonardo.
