Amazon Web Services Blog: Big News Regarding Python, boto, and AWS

We know that developers want to call the AWS APIs from many different languages. Over the last couple of years we have created and delivered SDKs for Java, PHP, .NET, and Ruby. We have also done the same for the iOS and the Android platforms.

We also know that the AWS community has dived in to create their own SDKs for languages and environments that we don't currently support. For example, the AWS SDK for PHP started out as an independent project called CloudFusion. We hired Ryan Parman (originator of the project) a year or two ago and he's become a valued member of the AWS Developer Resources team.

Building on this model, Mitch Garnaat has also joined the team. Mitch has been a member of the AWS community for over 6 years and has made over 2,000 posts to the AWS Developer Forums. He is also the author of boto, the most popular third-party library for accessing AWS, and of the Python and AWS Cookbook.

Boto will continue to exist as an open source project and we will be making official contributions to it.

The AWS Developer Resources team has big plans for 2012 and is hiring accordingly. Here are some of our open positions:

-- Jeff;

Comments

This is great stuff. We use boto extensively for almost every single one of our client projects. Thanks for supporting boto, Amazon!

Posted by: Greg Taylor | January 03, 2012 at 12:17 PM

Very happy to see continued support for boto. We use it quite a bit to build our proof-of-concepts and I personally use it for writing AWS tutorials I post in my blog. Their IRC channel is fantastic for getting answers quick.

/rdo_ci

P.S.: I'm no way associated with the project other than an avid user and documentation bug reporter :)

Posted by: Ruben Orduz | January 03, 2012 at 12:33 PM

I've also been doing more and more for a NodeJS implementation for all of the Amazon Web Services : https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum/ (my previous Perl version of the library is also still in use).

I'm hoping to get most of the AWS services done soon. Note: node-awssum is also available on NPM : http://search.npmjs.org/#/awssum

Posted by: Andrew Chilton | January 06, 2012 at 05:11 PM

Thanks for doing the javascript client. I really need this. Any idea of an eta? I might have to write it myself. Thanks!

You guys are absolutely amazing. Keep up the ridiculously fantastic work!!

Posted by: Davidcodes | January 06, 2012 at 11:52 PM

Also, if it's not scheduled, what I really care about in the javascript client is a secure authentication system like the ios and android token vending machine that is secure enough to be used in the browser via javascript. Thanks!

Posted by: Davidcodes | January 06, 2012 at 11:54 PM

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