Python and AWS Cookbook

Content: Table of Contents
 Preface
 Conventions Used in This Book
 Using Code Examples
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 Chapter 1. General Info
 1.1 A Quick Note About Python
 1.2 Installing boto
 Download and Install from github.com
 Manually Download and Install boto
 Installing boto with easy_install
 Installing boto with pip
 Installing boto with virtualenv
 Installing paramiko
 Installing euca2ools
 1.3 Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
 Create Your AWS Account
 Managing Your AWS Credentials in boto
 A Quick Test
 1.4 Using boto with Eucalyptus
 What Is Eucalyptus? Getting and Installing EucalyptusUsing the Eucalyptus Community Cloud
 Managing Your Eucalyptus Credentials in boto
 1.5 Using boto with Google Cloud Storage
 What Is Google Cloud Storage?
 Managing Your Google Cloud Storage Credentials in boto
 1.6 Finding Available Regions for AWS
 1.7 Enabling Debug Output with boto
 1.8 Controlling Socket Timeouts in boto
 Chapter 2. EC2 Recipes
 2.1 Launching an Instance
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.2 Keeping Track of Instances with Tags
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.3 Accessing the Console Log
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion. 2.4 Uploading Your Own SSH KeypairProblem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.5 Synchronizing SSH Keypairs Across EC2 Regions
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.6 Associate an Elastic IP Address with an Instance
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.7 Attach a Persistent EBS Volume to an Instance
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.8 Back Up Your EBS Volumes
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.9 Restore a Volume from a Snapshot
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.10 Clone an Existing Instance
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.11 Find All Running EC2 Instances
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion. 2.12 Monitoring the Performance of Your InstanceProblem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.13 Getting Notifications
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.14 Storing Custom Data in CloudWatch
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 2.15 Executing Custom Scripts upon Instance Startup
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 Chapter 3. S3 Recipes
 3.1 Create a Bucket
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.2 Create a Bucket in a Specific Location
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.3 Store Private Data
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.4 Store Metadata with an Object
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion. 3.5 Computing Total Storage Used by a BucketProblem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.6 Copy an Existing Object to Another Bucket
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.7 Modify the Metadata of an Existing Object
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.8 Find Out Who Is Accessing Your Data
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.9 Reduce the Cost of Storing Noncritical Data
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.10 Generating Expiring URLs for S3 Objects
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.11 Preventing Accidental Deletion of Data from S3
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 3.12 Hosting Static Websites on S3
 Problem.