I’m writing this on 9/14/2016. I make note of the date because the request to get the size of an S3 Bucket may seem a very important bit of information but AWS does not have an easy method with which to collect that info. I fully expect them to add… Continue reading
I’m here adding some additional Python Boto3 examples, this time working with S3 Buckets. So to get started, lets create the S3 resource, client, and get a listing of our buckets. import boto3 s3 = boto3.resource(‘s3’) s3client = boto3.client(‘s3’) response = s3client.list_buckets() for bucket in response[“Buckets”]: print(bucket[‘Name’]) Here we create… Continue reading
Continuing on with simple examples to help beginners learn the basics of Python and Boto3. This is a very simple tutorial showing how to get a list of instances in your Amazon AWS environment. import boto3 ec2client = boto3.client(‘ec2’) response = ec2client.describe_instances() for reservation in response[“Reservations”]: for instance in reservation[“Instances”]:… Continue reading
If you are starting from scratch with using Python and Boto3 to script and automate Amazon AWS environments, then this should help get you going. To begin, you’ll need a few items: 1) Download and install the latest Amazon AwsCli. The is the Command Line client for AWS. 2) You… Continue reading
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 1: Amazon AWS Connectivity and Basic VPC Networking
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 2: AWS S3 Storage: Buckets, Files, Management, and Security
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