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Step 1 – building Greengrass edge

The first step to start with Greengrass is to configure the edge group on the IoT Core and download the Greengrass package, the certificates, and the configuration file

From the menu on the left, we need to click on Greengrass and follow the Get Started procedure:

Getting started with Greengrass

The next step is to provide a name of the group, such as my-iiot-book-group-greengrass, as shown in the following screenshot:

Greengrass group

Accept the next few steps and then download the Greengrass distribution ...

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