Holy Foley. APIs, right?

Answer: right.

Do this:

pip install --upgrade boto3
ipython

• https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/index.html
• http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/quickstart.html

Now this:

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
iam = boto3.resource('iam')

You will need credentials…

During a session…

# The session token is optional
session = boto3.Session(
  aws_access_key_id='nuMBErsaNDL3tt3RS', 
  aws_secret_access_key='50mENUmb3rzANdLEtTeRz'
  aws_session_token=SESSION_TOKEN
)

For a client…

# The session token is optional
client = boto3.client(
    's3',
    aws_access_key_id=ACCESS_KEY,
    aws_secret_access_key=SECRET_KEY,
    aws_session_token=SESSION_TOKEN,
)

Putting in your credential like this is ok for an interactive session, but you probably do not want to write code that others will use with your credentials hard-coded in.

If you want to set default parameters for these secrets and keys on your own computer, create a config file:

mkdir -p ~/.aws
echo [default] > ~/.aws/config
echo aws_access_key_id=yourAccessKey >> ~/.aws/config
echo aws_secret_access_key=yourSecret >> ~/.aws/config

I don’t know about you, but at my work we have other credentials as well.

s3 = session.resource('s3') 
bucket = s3.Bucket('path/to/your/bucket')