boto3
Boto3, an AWS SDK for Python observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4352
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
9883 stars · 1985 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Boto3 is the official Amazon Web Services SDK for Python, providing idiomatic Python APIs for AWS services such as S3, EC2, and DynamoDB. It is built on botocore, the low-level library shared with the AWS CLI, and handles credentials, retries, pagination, and serialization.
Use cases
- upload and download files to amazon s3 from python
- manage ec2 instances programmatically
- query dynamodb tables from a python script
- automate aws infrastructure with python
- wait for aws resources to reach a given state
- call any aws service api from python
When to choose
- you are building Python applications or scripts that interact with AWS services
- you need official, up-to-date coverage of the full AWS API surface
- you want high-level resource APIs plus low-level client control
- you need features like pagination, waiters, and automatic S3 multipart transfers
When to avoid
- you are targeting clouds other than AWS
- you need a CLI rather than a Python library (use the AWS CLI, which shares botocore)
- you want infrastructure-as-code tooling rather than imperative SDK calls (consider CDK or Terraform)
Facets
library · maturity stable
sdk http-client serialization auth cloud-computing developer-tools apis python cross-platform aws boto3 botocore cloud-sdk amazon-web-services s3 ec2 dynamodb automation
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/boto/boto3 · fetched 2026-08-28 · af3db5c106ad
- homepage: https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · b488dc62605c
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started?nc2=h_dsc_aa_gs · fetched 2026-08-29 · f35fd0664950
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure?nc2=h_dsc_aa_gi · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79a446e5fbd1
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/agent-toolkit-for-aws?nc2=h_dsc_ex_s5 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3cc21b596f92
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing?nc2=h_pr_hub · fetched 2026-08-29 · e2abd01d7981
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans?nc2=h_pr_sp · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9ff3c7ad93e0
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing?nc2=h_pr_s3 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 97bbf99c3793
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing?nc2=h_pr_br · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4ccc538a3696
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing?nc2=h_pr_rds · fetched 2026-08-29 · 538280f30c8a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| boto/boto3 | main | 67 |
| boto/botocore | backend | 77 |
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