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