[`boto3`](https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html) is the official [[AWS]] SDK for [[Python]], and provides an interface to different AWS services via Python objects. ## Configuration The easiest and most common way to configure `boto3` is to use **environment variables** in the shell. It is required to have at least `$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`, `$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`; but several other variables may be required depending on the operation to be done. Other possible way is to use AWS configurations via the CLI: running `aws configure` will prompt the user the necessary data to create a `~/.aws/config` file to store all credentials.