chefgs / aws_boto3_scripts

Repo contains the boto3 AWS resource creation scripts

AWS Boto3 Project

Getting started with Installation

1. Install python
2. Install pip
3. Add python and pip installation to PATH variable
4. Install boto3: pip install boto3
5. Install AWS-CLI: pip install awscli --upgrade --user
6. Configure AWS-CLI for linking account using the command : aws configure

Create Python code and run

9. Create boto3 script and save the file as <boto3_script_name>.py extension
10. Run as python <boto3_script_name>.py

Detailed Instructions

The following steps has been captured from the Boto3 Getting Started docs.

Install boto3

Boto3 requires python version 3 or above and python package installer pip

• Refer official python download documentation to install it.
  • For macos, brew install python works good.
  • For Linux, apt update && apt install python might be fine.
• Install pip using the official pip install documentation
  • I've used get-pip.py method to install pip
• Install boto3: pip install boto3 or python3 pip install boto3

AWS CLI

• Install AWS CLI by following the instructions here in the docs
• After installing AWS CLI, use aws configure command to setup AWS secret key, access key or temporary sts key.
• Read more about the AWS boto3 configuration here
• Install AWS-CLI: pip install awscli --upgrade --user

AWS Common Runtime (Optional)

In addition to the default install of Boto3, you can choose to include the new AWS Common Runtime (CRT). The AWS CRT is a collection of modular packages that serve as a new foundation for AWS SDKs.

Using Boto3

To use Boto3, you must first import it and indicate which service or services you’re going to use:

import boto3