Tag: aws api

This is another simple example that help to access aws api using python and boto3. The python is most popular scripting language.I will use python flask micro rest framework to access amazon api. The amazon provides different api packages based on programming languages.I am using boto3 libs which is based on python3 and provide interface to communicate with aws api. we will use python 3+, flask micro-framework and boto3 libs. We will manage environment variable using python-dotenv package. How to Consume Amazon API Using Python We will create API that return availability zones using boto3.I am assuming you have created sample python flask app, if not please create app using my previous article Consuming a RESTful API with Python and Flask. Create .env file Into Python We will install boto3 and python-dotenv using below pip command. Install python-dotenv Using pip pip install boto3 pip install python-dotenv The pip command is help to install package as like npm, composer etc. Let's create .env file into root of the application added below configuration params- Added AWS aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key APP_ENVDev aws_access_key_idXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX aws_secret_access_keyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX region_nameXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Above configuration parameters will found into the aws account. Route Entry Into Python App We will create route entry into the main api.py file. api.add_resource(getAvailabilityZones, "/get_availability_zones") Create HTTP Get service Call using AWS HTTP Client We will create HTTP client to get data from aws api, Now we will create service request to get data from aws server.We will create controller.py file and added below code. import boto3 from botocore.config import Config import botocore from botocore.exceptions import ClientError, BotoCoreError import logging import os class AWSService: def getAvailabilityZones(): try: ec2 boto3.client('ec2', aws_access_key_idos.getenv('aws_access_key_id'),aws_secret_access_keyos.getenv('aws_secret_access_key'), verifyFalse, api_version '2016-11-15') response ec2.describe_availability_zones() return Helper.jsonSuccess(resultsresponse) except (ValueError, ClientError, BotoCoreError) as e: logging.exception(e) return Helper.jsonError(messagestr(e)) return Helper.jsonError(messagestr(e))