Installation Of AWS boto/boto3 On Ubuntu

The following are the steps for the installation of AWS boto/boto3 on Ubuntu:

• Step 1: Before installing AWS boto/boto3 on Ubuntu machine it’s a good practice to update package list. To update package list type this command on terminal:

sudo apt update

• Step 2: Make sure that python version 3 and pip version 9 installed.If you haven’t already installed them, you can do so by running the following command:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

• Step 3: Once Python3 and pip3 are installed, you can proceed to install Boto and Boto3 using pip3. To install boto type the following command on the terminal:

sudo pip install boto

• Step 4: To install boto3 type the following command on the terminal:

sudo pip install  boto3

• Step 5: To verify the installation is successful , for boto type:

pip show boto

• Step 6: To verify that boto3 is installed type :

pip show boto3

AWS offers vast services from compute power to storage, machine learning and easier deployment of applications, interacting with these services programmatically is essential for automating tasks, managing resources, and configuring infrastructure. For this purpose, AWS introduced boto and boto3 two Python libraries. Boto and Boto3 libraries help developers do these tasks programmatically and use the full potential of AWS services.