Boto3 On Macosx

Boto is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Python, which allows Python developers to write software that use AWS services. Boto provides an easy to use, object-oriented API as well as low-level direct service access. Boto is urrently in its third version and hence called boto3. Here is the link to official boto3 website/documentation.

Installing boto3 on macOS is easy but sometimes users may face some issues. Below are the clear steps you need to install boto3.

1. Download pip

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

2. Install pip

   python get-pip.py

3. Install boto3 using pip. Make sure you use –user option to avoid operation not permitted error

   pip install boto3 --user

Now you can use the boto3 sdk by importing in your python script as below

import boto3