Example: Upload a File to AWS S3 with Boto

Example Code Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of extremely popular set of services for websites and apps, so knowing how to interact with the various services is important. Here, we focus on the Simple Storage Service (S3), which is essentially a file store service. All files must be assigned to a bucket, which is assigned a name and can be addressed by http://s3.amazonaws.com/{bucket}/{key}. Each file is assigned a unique key, which can be used later on to retrieve […]

How to Send an Email with boto and SES

Introduction Pretty much every user-based app and website needs to send an email to the user at some point, so eventually you’ll have to deal with the joyous world of programmatic emailing. There are quite a few services popping up to help you with this, but with every app having its own unique requirements, few of these services adequately get the job done. So having faced the problem a few times (and in a few languages), I decided to write […]