Python and AWS Cookbook

by Mitch Garnaat

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

Genres: Programming, Technical, Computers

74 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Leonardo]

Mitch Garnaat’s Python and AWS Cookbook (O’Reilly) is a brief but extremely useful guide that will get you started with Amazon Web Services and show you how to get a scalable application up and running.

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[CJ Harries · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book is a great introduction to the boto library. It doesn't cover much else. Were it titled An Introduction to boto I'd love it.

[Noe Nieto · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book because of the S3 recipes. First release was on 2011 and by now (2014) AWS has a lot more services. Also, this book is very thin. Maybe newer editions could pack more recipes.

[TN · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a short book on using boto as AWS interface. I found some useful ideas. However, most of them are very briefly described.

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a useful book at the time. Dated now.