{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/issues/46","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/issues/46/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/issues/46/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/issues/46/events","html_url":"https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/issues/46","id":144730351,"number":46,"title":"Device registry confusion","user":{"login":"chadhobson","id":1839161,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1839161?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson","html_url":"https://github.com/chadhobson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chadhobson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-03-30T21:52:40Z","updated_at":"2016-03-30T21:52:40Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm confused by the concept of the \"Device Registry\" and while I know this isn't a help forum, it begs the question anyway, so here goes. At first I thought it was a Device MODEL Registry but as I read more in the docs, it appears to be a literal 1:1 Device Registry where every single serial numbered device needs to be registered. I'm fine with either approach but....\r\n\r\nI thought the AWS IoT dashboard was just a friendly hand-holding exercise to introduce the concept and that's fine. But let's say I need to add thousands of devices to the registry? Maybe I have 50K devices that exist now and I'm shipping 1K devices every week.\r\n\r\nI need to register these existing devices somehow as well as future ones that I'm shipping. I'm obviously not going to do that through the dashboard one at a time nor would I do that from AWS CLI, so what part of the docs am I completely missing? How does a newborn device attaining internet access for the first time provision itself with AWS IoT?\r\n\r\nNone of the examples show a device registering itself with the registry right?"}}