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

About the Author
Mitch Garnaat is the founder of CloudRight, and the co-inventor and lead developer of DocuShare, a web-based document management product from Xerox. He was was also a Principal Engineer and Area Manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and later the Chief Engineer for Emerging Technologies at Xerox Global Services. He is the developer of boto, an open source Python library for AWS and is active in the AWS community as an author, forum poster and member of Amazon's Customer Advisory Board.


Book Information
ISBN 9781449305444
Author Mitch Garnaat
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media