Overview of Amazon Web Services¶
AWS General Reference¶
AWS products and services¶
AWS technology consists of a series of interrelated products or services whose release frecuency varies among services. AWS has significantly increase the number of services and features released during the last years as you can see in figure fig-innovation. You can read Release Notes to have a summary of all new features, resolved issues, and known issues in the latest versions of AWS products and services.
Get available partitions¶
>>> import boto3
>>> session = boto3.Session()
>>> session.get_available_partitions()
[u'aws', u'aws-cn', u'aws-us-gov', u'aws-iso', u'aws-iso-b']
Get available regions¶
>>> session.get_available_regions('ec2')
[u'ap-east-1', u'ap-northeast-1', u'ap-northeast-2', u'ap-south-1', u'ap-southeast-1', u'ap-southeast-2', u'ca-central-1', u'eu-central-1', u'eu-north-1', u'eu-west-1', u'eu-west-2', u'eu-west-3', u'me-south-1', u'sa-east-1', u'us-east-1', u'us-east-2', u'us-west-1', u'us-west-2']
Get available resources¶
>>> session.get_available_resources()
['cloudformation', 'cloudwatch', 'dynamodb', 'ec2', 'glacier', 'iam', 'opsworks', 's3', 'sns', 'sqs']