How To Automate AWS S3 Static Websites Using Python

Amazon Web Services offers a very popular object storage service known as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) that enables you to store data, files, images and even videos in highly available containers called ‘buckets’ which are also easy to access endpoints using any popular programming language. In a combination of AWS S3 and with other AWS services developers can build scalable and durable applications and back ends.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to automate the creation of an AWS S3 Bucket, which we will use to deploy a static website using the AWS SDK for Python also known as the Boto3 library. Please refer to my previous article here to grant programmatic access from AWS and set up the environment local computer with AWS credentials.

Let’s start with fetching details of existing S3 buckets from AWS Cloud

To list all Buckets in your console using Python, simply import the boto3 library in Python and then use the ‘list_buckets()’ method of the S3 client, then iterate through all the buckets available to list the property ‘Name’ like in the following image.
import boto3
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
response = s3.list_buckets()
for bucket in response['Buckets']:
print('BucketName: {}'.format(bucket['Name']))


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