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.

Command Line Tools

Introduction

Boto ships with a number of command line utilities, which are installed when the package is installed. This guide outlines which ones are available & what they do.

Note

If you’re not already depending on these utilities, you may wish to check out the AWS-CLI (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ - User Guide & Reference Guide). It provides much wider & complete access to the AWS services.

The included utilities available are:

asadmin

Works with Autoscaling

bundle_image

Creates a bundled AMI in S3 based on a EC2 instance

cfadmin

Works with CloudFront & invalidations

cq

Works with SQS queues

cwutil

Works with CloudWatch

dynamodb_dump dynamodb_load

Handle dumping/loading data from DynamoDB tables

elbadmin

Manages Elastic Load Balancer instances

fetch_file

Downloads an S3 key to disk

glacier

Lists vaults, jobs & uploads files to Glacier

instance_events

Lists all events for EC2 reservations

kill_instance

Kills a list of EC2 instances

launch_instance

Launches an EC2 instance

list_instances

Lists all of your EC2 instances

lss3

Lists what keys you have within a bucket in S3

mturk

Provides a number of facilities for interacting with Mechanical Turk

pyami_sendmail

Sends an email from the Pyami instance

route53

Interacts with the Route53 service

s3put

Uploads a directory or a specific file(s) to S3

sdbadmin

Allows for working with SimpleDB domains

taskadmin

A tool for working with the tasks in SimpleDB