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boto: A Python interface to Amazon Web Services
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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
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   sqs_tut
   s3_tut
   ec2_tut
   elb_tut
   autoscale_tut
   vpc_tut
   emr_tut
   ref/index
   documentation


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