Amazon has, like all the cloud giants, positioned itself as an ideal platform to host IoT deployments and big data analytics, but until this week’s sold-out AWS Re:Invent show in Las Vegas, it has made fewer specific announcements than its rivals in this area. The show saw the unveiling of the much anticipated IoT platform, AWS IoT beta, by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. The announcement has been a long time coming since AWS acquired 2lemetry and its ThingFabric platform earlier this year, and now the beta IoT platform will leverage Amazon’s AWS cloud to support billions of devices and trillions of messages. After all, the cloud and IoT were meant for each other – IoT leverages the cloud, and the…