| # boto |
| boto 2.1.1 |
| 31-Oct-2011 |
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| ## Introduction |
| |
| Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services. |
| At the moment, boto supports: |
| |
| * Simple Storage Service (S3) |
| * SimpleQueue Service (SQS) |
| * Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
| * Mechanical Turk |
| * SimpleDB |
| * CloudFront |
| * CloudWatch |
| * AutoScale |
| * Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) |
| * Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) |
| * Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) |
| * Relational Data Service (RDS) |
| * Simple Notification Server (SNS) |
| * Google Storage |
| * Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
| * Route53 DNS Service (route53) |
| * Simple Email Service (SES) |
| * Flexible Payment Service (FPS) |
| * CloudFormation |
| |
| The goal of boto is to support the full breadth and depth of Amazon |
| Web Services. In addition, boto provides support for other public |
| services such as Google Storage in addition to private cloud systems |
| like Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Open Nebula. |
| |
| Boto is developed mainly using Python 2.6.6 and Python 2.7.1 on Mac OSX |
| and Ubuntu Maverick. It is known to work on other Linux distributions |
| and on Windows. Boto requires no additional libraries or packages |
| other than those that are distributed with Python. Efforts are made |
| to keep boto compatible with Python 2.5.x but no guarantees are made. |
| |
| ## Finding Out More About Boto |
| |
| The main source code repository for boto can be found on |
| [github.com](http://github.com/boto/boto) |
| |
| [Online documentation](http://readthedocs.org/docs/boto/) is also |
| available. The online documentation includes full API documentation |
| as well as Getting Started Guides for many of the boto modules. |
| |
| Boto releases can be found on the [Google Project |
| page](http://code.google.com/p/boto/downloads/list) or on the [Python |
| Cheese Shop](http://pypi.python.org/). |
| |
| Join our `IRC channel`_ (#boto on FreeNode). |
| IRC channel: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=boto |
| |
| ## Getting Started with Boto |
| |
| Your credentials can be passed into the methods that create |
| connections. Alternatively, boto will check for the existance of the |
| following environment variables to ascertain your credentials: |
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| AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - Your AWS Access Key ID |
| AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Your AWS Secret Access Key |
| |
| Credentials and other boto-related settings can also be stored in a |
| boto config file. See |
| [this](http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/BotoConfig) for details. |
| |
| Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mitch Garnaat <mitch@garnaat.com> |
| Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. |
| All rights reserved. |
