boto: A Python interface to Amazon Web Services

An integrated interface to current and future infrastructural services offered by Amazon Web Services.

Currently, this includes:

• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• CloudWatch
• AutoScale

• Mechanical Turk
• SimpleDB (SDB) - See SimpleDbPage for details
• CloudFront
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Relational Data Services (RDS)
• Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
• Flexible Payment Service (FPS)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

The boto project page is at http://boto.googlecode.com/

The boto source repository is at http://github.com/boto

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Documentation Contents

• An Introduction to boto’s SQS interface
  • Creating a Connection
  • Creating a Queue
  • Writing Messages
  • Reading Messages
  • Deleting Messages and Queues
  • Listing All Available Queues
  • Other Stuff
• An Introduction to boto’s S3 interface
  • Creating a Connection
  • Creating a Bucket
  • Creating a Bucket In Another Location
  • Storing Data
  • Listing All Available Buckets
  • Setting / Getting the Access Control List for Buckets and Keys
  • Setting/Getting Metadata Values on Key Objects
• An Introduction to boto’s EC2 interface
  • Creating a Connection
  • A Note About Regions
  • Images & Instances
  • Security Groups
• An Introduction to boto’s Elastic Load Balancing interface
  • Elastic Load Balancing Concepts
  • Creating a Connection
  • Creating a Load Balancer
  • Adding Instances To a Load Balancer
  • Modifying Availability Zones for a Load Balancer
  • Deleting a Load Balancer
• An Introduction to boto’s Autoscale interface
  • Autoscale Concepts
  • Creating a Connection
  • Creating Autoscaling Groups
• An Introduction to boto’s VPC interface
  • Creating a VPC connection
  • To create a VPC
  • To create a subnet
  • To create a customer gateway
  • To create a VPN gateway
  • Attaching a VPN Gateway to a VPC
• An Introduction to boto’s Elastic Mapreduce interface
  • Creating a Connection
  • Creating Streaming JobFlow Steps
  • Creating Custom Jar Job Flow Steps
  • Creating JobFlows
  • Terminating JobFlows
• API Reference
  • boto
  • cloudfront
  • contrib
  • EC2
  • ECS
  • EMR
  • file
  • fps
  • GS
  • IAM
  • manage
  • mashups
  • mturk
  • pyami
  • RDS
  • route53
  • S3
  • sdb
  • services
  • SES
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • VPC
• About the Documentation
  • The fabfile

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page