POST

/things

http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com/things

<p>Provisions a thing in the device registry. RegisterThing calls other IoT control plane APIs. These calls might exceed your account level <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html#limits_iot"> IoT Throttling Limits</a> and cause throttle errors. Please contact <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home">Amazon Web Services Customer Support</a> to raise your throttling limits if necessary.</p> <p>Requires permission to access the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/reference/list_awsiot.html#awsiot-actions-as-permissions">RegisterThing</a> action.</p>

Access Token Required: API Key

Body Params

parametersobject

The parameters for provisioning a thing. See <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/provision-template.html">Provisioning Templates</a> for more information.

templateBodystringrequired

The provisioning template. See <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/provision-w-cert.html">Provisioning Devices That Have Device Certificates</a> for more information.

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com/things' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}