Boto3 Slides Overview

Boto3

• AWS SDK for Python developers
  • Software development kit
  • Interact with AWS easily through Python
• Supports Python 2 & 3
• Data-driven from the group up
• Up-to-date service API support
• Consistent interface
• Modern object-oriented API

Feature: Resources

• Generated from JSON resource description
• Object-oriented API for AWS
• Identifiers & attributes
• Actions
• References
• Sub-resources
• Collections

Project Example

Add a Little Glue

• Directory watcher
• Main function
  • Upload / start job / wait / download / delete
• Amazon S3 cleanup functionality
• Amazon SQS cleanup