Amazon is a quiet giant in the IoT, given its massive retail presence that seems to sell nearly every smart home gadget. But more important is it Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, which has been bolstered this week with the acquisition of 2lemetry and its ThingFabric platform. While the Echo home audio and AI system is certainly a cool product in the consumer side, Amazon’s expertise lies in powering massive deployments of cloud instances, that are used by third parties to run computational processes in the cloud on an as-needed basis. Amazon has, like all the cloud giants, positioned itself as an ideal platform to host IoT deployments and big data analytics, but it has made fewer specific…