# Amazon FreeRTOS - How To Add Target; other questions...

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**Category:** Kernel\
**Created:** [December 10, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/amazon-freertos-how-to-add-target-other-questions/6885 "2017-12-10T00:13:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwestmoreland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jwestmoreland](https://forums.freertos.org/u/jwestmoreland)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/amazon-freertos-how-to-add-target-other-questions/6885/1 "2017-12-10T00:13:59Z")

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**[westmorelandeng](https://sourceforge.net/u/westmorelandeng/)** wrote on [Sunday, December 10, 2017](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/3afb7175/#e706):

Hello All (Richard),

I just accessed the Amazon FreeRTOS interface under AWS on Amazon.

I was wondering - under Create New -\> Hardware Platform - is there a way to add a microcontroller family to this vs. an IoT module - but maybe this is IoT module only now (and currently sparse).

Just want to know is there a demarcation of FreeRTOS v10.x (here) and FreeRTOS v10.x (Amazon IoT)?

I suspect kernel files and existing (and future microcontroller) ports will still originate here? Does Amazon plan on ‘forking’ the ‘master/base’ - or will all kernel files still be 100% here? I suppose some of us can fear the dreaded feature creep that seems inevitable. (Ha - tongue in cheek of course, hopefully.)

Good idea for the IoT stuff; but as long as the ‘bare metal’ stuff can be accessed here (or via SVN/git) - guess that’s OK.

But, this is progress and all-in-all a good thing - so congrats are in order also!

Thanks,  
John W.

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**Author:** ![rtel](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/rtel/32/31_2.png) [@rtel](https://forums.freertos.org/u/rtel)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/amazon-freertos-how-to-add-target-other-questions/6885/2 "2017-12-10T02:09:22Z")

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**[rtel](https://sourceforge.net/u/rtel/)** wrote on [Sunday, December 10, 2017](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/3afb7175/#e706/b5f9):

Hi John,

The kernel code you received as part of Amazon FreeRTOS is the same as the kernel code you receive via SourceForge. No divergence. The [FreeRTOS.org](http://FreeRTOS.org) website and download remains the home of the FreeRTOS kernel itself, as can be seen by v10 being released as normal here.