Python and AWS Cookbook

✍ Scribed by Garnaat, Mitch

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2012;2011
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Table of Contents; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. General Info; 1.1 A Quick Note About Python; 1.2 Installing boto; Download and Install from github.com; Manually Download and Install boto; Installing boto with easy_install; Installing boto with pip; Installing boto with virtualenv; Installing paramiko; Installing euca2ools; 1.3 Getting Started with Amazon Web Services; Create Your AWS Account; Managing Your AWS Credentials in boto; A Quick Test; 1.4 Using boto with Eucalyptus; What Is Eucalyptus?;"If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal programming language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author's boto library"--Page 4 of cover.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Chapter 1. General Info
1.1 A Quick Note About Python
1.2 Installing boto
Download and Install from github.com
Manually Download and Install boto
Installing boto with easy_install
Installing boto with pip
Installing boto with virtualenv
Installing paramiko
Installing euca2ools
1.3 Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
Create Your AWS Account
Managing Your AWS Credentials in boto
A Quick Test
1.4 Using boto with Eucalyptus
What Is Eucalyptus? Getting and Installing EucalyptusUsing the Eucalyptus Community Cloud
Managing Your Eucalyptus Credentials in boto
1.5 Using boto with Google Cloud Storage
What Is Google Cloud Storage?
Managing Your Google Cloud Storage Credentials in boto
1.6 Finding Available Regions for AWS
1.7 Enabling Debug Output with boto
1.8 Controlling Socket Timeouts in boto
Chapter 2. EC2 Recipes
2.1 Launching an Instance
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.2 Keeping Track of Instances with Tags
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.3 Accessing the Console Log
Problem
Solution
Discussion 2.4 Uploading Your Own SSH KeypairProblem
Solution
Discussion
2.5 Synchronizing SSH Keypairs Across EC2 Regions
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.6 Associate an Elastic IP Address with an Instance
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.7 Attach a Persistent EBS Volume to an Instance
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.8 Back Up Your EBS Volumes
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.9 Restore a Volume from a Snapshot
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.10 Clone an Existing Instance
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.11 Find All Running EC2 Instances
Problem
Solution
Discussion 2.12 Monitoring the Performance of Your InstanceProblem
Solution
Discussion
2.13 Getting Notifications
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.14 Storing Custom Data in CloudWatch
Problem
Solution
Discussion
2.15 Executing Custom Scripts upon Instance Startup
Problem
Solution
Discussion
Chapter 3. S3 Recipes
3.1 Create a Bucket
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.2 Create a Bucket in a Specific Location
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.3 Store Private Data
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.4 Store Metadata with an Object
Problem
Solution
Discussion 3.5 Computing Total Storage Used by a BucketProblem
Solution
Discussion
3.6 Copy an Existing Object to Another Bucket
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.7 Modify the Metadata of an Existing Object
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.8 Find Out Who Is Accessing Your Data
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.9 Reduce the Cost of Storing Noncritical Data
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.10 Generating Expiring URLs for S3 Objects
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.11 Preventing Accidental Deletion of Data from S3
Problem
Solution
Discussion
3.12 Hosting Static Websites on S3
Problem

✦ Subjects

Application software--Development;Cloud computing;Python (Computer program language);Web services;Electronic books;Amazon.com (Firm);Application software -- Development