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AWS for Query.Farm

aws.iot.describe_thing

Example SQL Queries

SELECT * FROM
aws.iot.describe_thing
WHERE
"thing_name" = 'VALUE';

Description

Gets information about the specified thing.

Requires permission to access the DescribeThing action.

Table Definition

Column NameColumn Data Type
thing_name Required Input Column

The name of the thing.

VARCHAR
_aws_profile Input Column

The AWS profile defines the AWS identity used. It can be defined via credentials or by assuming a IAM role.

STRUCT(
    "type" VARCHAR,
    "name" VARCHAR,
    "account_id" VARCHAR,
    "via_profile_name" VARCHAR,
    "assumed_role_arn" VARCHAR,
    "organization" STRUCT(
        "account_name" VARCHAR,
        "id" VARCHAR,
        "tags" STRUCT(
            "key" VARCHAR,
            "value" VARCHAR
        )[],
        "master_account" STRUCT(
            "id" VARCHAR,
            "email" VARCHAR
        ),
        "parents" STRUCT(
            "type" VARCHAR,
            "id" VARCHAR,
            "name" VARCHAR,
            "tags" STRUCT(
                "key" VARCHAR,
                "value" VARCHAR
            )[]
        )[]
    )
)
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_aws_profile.account_id

The AWS account id

_aws_profile.assumed_role_arn

The ARN of the assumed role

_aws_profile.name

The unique name of the profile.

_aws_profile.organization

Information about this profile's membership in the AWS organization.

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_aws_profile.organization.account_name

The name of account speciifed by the organization

_aws_profile.organization.id

The organization id

_aws_profile.organization.master_account
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_aws_profile.organization.master_account.email

The organization master account email address

_aws_profile.organization.master_account.id

The organization master account id

_aws_profile.organization.parents[]
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_aws_profile.organization.parents[].id

The id of the parent

_aws_profile.organization.parents[].name

The name of the parent

_aws_profile.organization.parents[].tags[]
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_aws_profile.organization.parents[].tags[].key
_aws_profile.organization.parents[].tags[].value
_aws_profile.organization.parents[].type

The type of parent can be an organization unit or a root

_aws_profile.organization.tags[]
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_aws_profile.organization.tags[].key
_aws_profile.organization.tags[].value
_aws_profile.type

The type of profile, either 'credentials' or 'assumed_role'

_aws_profile.via_profile_name

This IAM role for this profile is assumed by first utilizing another profile with this name to obtain credentials.

_aws_region Input Column

The AWS region to use.

VARCHAR
attributes

The thing attributes.

MAP(VARCHAR, VARCHAR)
billing_group_name

The name of the billing group the thing belongs to.

VARCHAR
default_client_id

The default MQTT client ID. For a typical device, the thing name is also used as the default MQTT client ID. Although we don’t require a mapping between a thing's registry name and its use of MQTT client IDs, certificates, or shadow state, we recommend that you choose a thing name and use it as the MQTT client ID for the registry and the Device Shadow service.

This lets you better organize your IoT fleet without removing the flexibility of the underlying device certificate model or shadows.

VARCHAR
thing_arn

The ARN of the thing to describe.

VARCHAR
thing_id

The ID of the thing to describe.

VARCHAR
thing_type_name

The thing type name.

VARCHAR
version

The current version of the thing record in the registry.

To avoid unintentional changes to the information in the registry, you can pass the version information in the expectedVersion parameter of the UpdateThing and DeleteThing calls.

BIGINT