Note
You are viewing the documentation for an older version of boto (boto2).
Boto3, the next version of Boto, is now stable and recommended for general use. It can be used side-by-side with Boto in the same project, so it is easy to start using Boto3 in your existing projects as well as new projects. Going forward, API updates and all new feature work will be focused on Boto3.
For more information, see the documentation for boto3.
boto: A Python interface to Amazon Web Services¶
Note
Boto3, the next version of Boto, is now stable and recommended for general use. It can be used side-by-side with Boto in the same project, so it is easy to start using Boto3 in your existing projects as well as new projects. Going forward, API updates and all new feature work will be focused on Boto3.
An integrated interface to current and future infrastructural services offered by Amazon Web Services.
Currently, all features work with Python 2.6 and 2.7. Work is under way to support Python 3.3+ in the same codebase. Modules are being ported one at a time with the help of the open source community, so please check below for compatibility with Python 3.3+.
To port a module to Python 3.3+, please view our Contributing Guidelines and the Porting Guide. If you would like, you can open an issue to let others know about your work in progress. Tests must pass on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4 for pull requests to be accepted.
Getting Started¶
If you’ve never used boto
before, you should read the
Getting Started with Boto guide to get familiar
with boto
& its usage.
Currently Supported Services¶
- Compute
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Elastic MapReduce (EMR) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Auto Scaling – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Kinesis – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Lambda – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- EC2 Container Service (ECS) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Content Delivery
- CloudFront – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Database
- DynamoDB2 – (API Reference) – (Migration Guide from v1)
- DynamoDB – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Relational Data Services 2 (RDS) – (API Reference) – (Migration Guide from v1)
- Relational Data Services (RDS) – (API Reference)
- ElastiCache – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Redshift – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- SimpleDB – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Deployment and Management
- CloudFormation – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Elastic Beanstalk – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Data Pipeline – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Opsworks – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- CloudTrail – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- CodeDeploy – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Administration & Security
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Security Token Service (STS) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Key Management Service (KMS) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Config – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- CloudHSM – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Application Services
- Cloudsearch 2 – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Cloudsearch – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- CloudSearch Domain –(API Reference) (Python 3)
- Elastic Transcoder – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Simple Workflow Service (SWF) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Simple Queue Service (SQS) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Simple Notification Service (SNS) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Simple Email Service (SES) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Amazon Cognito Identity – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Amazon Cognito Sync – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Amazon Machine Learning – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Monitoring
- CloudWatch – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- CloudWatch Logs – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Networking
- Route 53 – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Route 53 Domains – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- AWS Direct Connect (Python 3)
- Payments & Billing
- Flexible Payments Service (FPS) – (API Reference)
- Storage
- Simple Storage Service (S3) – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Amazon Glacier – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Google Cloud Storage – (API Reference)
- Workforce
- Mechanical Turk – (API Reference)
- Other
- Marketplace Web Services – (API Reference) (Python 3)
- Support – (API Reference) (Python 3)
Additional Resources¶
Release Notes¶
- boto v2.49.0
- boto v2.48.0
- boto v2.47.0
- boto v2.46.1
- boto v2.45.0
- boto v2.44.0
- boto v2.43.0
- boto v2.42.0
- boto v2.41.0
- boto v2.40.0
- boto v2.39.0
- boto v2.38.0
- boto v2.37.0
- boto v2.36.0
- boto v2.35.2
- boto v2.35.1
- boto v2.35.0
- boto v2.34.0
- boto v2.33.0
- boto v2.32.1
- boto v2.32.0
- boto v2.31.1
- boto v2.31.0
- boto v2.30.0
- boto v2.29.1
- boto v2.29.0
- boto v2.28.0
- boto v2.27.0
- boto v2.26.1
- boto v2.26.0
- boto v2.25.0
- boto v2.24.0
- boto v2.23.0
- boto v2.22.1
- boto v2.22.0
- boto v2.21.2
- boto v2.21.1
- boto v2.21.0
- boto v2.20.1
- boto v2.20.0
- boto v2.19.0
- boto v2.18.0
- boto v2.17.0
- boto v2.16.0
- boto v2.15.0
- boto v2.14.0
- boto v2.13.3
- boto v2.13.2
- boto v2.13.0
- boto v2.12.0
- boto v2.11.0
- boto v2.10.0
- boto v2.9.9
- boto v2.9.8
- boto v2.9.7
- boto v2.9.6
- boto v2.9.5
- boto v2.9.4
- boto v2.9.3
- boto v2.9.2
- boto v2.9.1
- boto v2.9.0
- boto v2.8.0
- boto v2.7.0
- boto v2.6.0
- boto v2.5.2
- boto v2.5.1
- boto v2.5.0
- boto v2.4.0
- boto v2.3.0
- boto v2.2.2
- boto v2.2.1
- boto v2.2.0
- boto v2.1.1
- boto v2.1.0
- Release Notes for boto 2.0
- Major changes for release 2.0b1