Python and AWS cookbook

✍ Scribed by Garnaat, Mitch

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2011;2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 74
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

You’ll find detailed recipes for working with the S3 storage service as well as EC2, the service that lets you design and build cloud applications. Each recipe includes a code solution you can use immediately, along with a discussion of why and how the recipe works. You also get detailed advice for using boto with AWS and other cloud services.

This book’s recipes include methods to help you:


Launch instances on EC2, and keep track of them with tags
Associate an Elastic IP address with an instance
Restore a failed Elastic Block Store volume from a snapshot
Store and monitor your own custom metrics in CloudWatch
Create a bucket in S3 to contain your data objects
Reduce the cost of storing noncritical data
Prevent accidental deletion of data in S3

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 5
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 7
Safari® Books Online......Page 8
How to Contact Us......Page 9
Manually Download and Install boto......Page 11
Installing boto with easy_install......Page 12
Installing euca2ools......Page 13
Create Your AWS Account......Page 14
Managing Your AWS Credentials in boto......Page 16
What Is Eucalyptus?......Page 17
Managing Your Google Cloud Storage Credentials in boto......Page 18
1.6  Finding Available Regions for AWS......Page 19
1.8  Controlling Socket Timeouts in boto......Page 20
Discussion......Page 21
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✦ Subjects

Computer Science;Programming;Technical;Computers