---
id: awsiot
version: "0.1.3"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# awsiot — Command Line utility to easily provision IoT things in AWS

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 215.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

awsiot is a command-line wrapper around AWS IoT provisioning operations. It lets you create IoT Things and ThingTypes, assign attributes to them, and attach certificates—operations that would otherwise require writing boto3 code or using the AWS console. The tool reads your local AWS credentials and uses them to interact with your AWS account.

The package depends on boto3 and botocore for AWS API calls, and click for CLI argument handling. However, it has been abandoned since late 2017, with no updates to track AWS API changes or support modern Python versions. Before adopting it, you should verify whether it still works with current AWS SDK versions and whether your use case would be better served by writing boto3 code directly or using newer provisioning tools.

Use it for:

- Quickly create a single IoT Thing with attributes from the command line during local development or testing.
- Bulk-provision multiple IoT devices by scripting repeated calls to awsiot newthing with different parameters.
- Attach pre-existing certificates to Things without writing custom Python code.
- Set up IoT ThingTypes once and reuse them across multiple Things with consistent attributes.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Command-line tool for provisioning AWS IoT Things and ThingTypes, and attaching certificates to them.

No. The package is abandoned (last update 2017-12-10) and targets Python versions up to 3.6. Compatibility with modern boto3, botocore, and current Python releases is unverified. For AWS IoT provisioning, writing boto3 code directly or using AWS's official provisioning tools is safer and more maintainable.

## Install

pip install awsiot
uv add awsiot
poetry add awsiot

## Installing awsiot

Before you install: Low install friction with standard dependencies (boto3, botocore, click), but the package is abandoned—last commit was 2017-12-08 and no updates since 2017-12-10. Compatibility with modern AWS SDK versions and current Python releases is uncertain.

License in practice: MIT license is permissive and poses no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution.

Quickstart:

pip install awsiot

# Requires AWS credentials configured at ~/.aws/config
awsiot newthing MyDevice -a /path/to/attributes.json
awsiot attachcert MyDevice arn:aws:iot:region:account:cert/id

Requires an existing AWS credentials file (~/.aws/config) with valid access keys and region configured.

Verify before relying:

- Whether this tool works with current versions of boto3 and botocore, given the 2017 release date.
- Whether the CLI interface remains compatible with modern AWS IoT API changes since 2017.
- Support for Python versions beyond 3.6, which was the latest listed at release.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 215.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

aws iot provisioning cli, create iot things command line, aws device provisioning tool, iot certificate attachment, aws thing management cli, iot device setup automation, aws iot bulk provisioning, aws-iot, cli-tool, abandoned

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