In previous chapters, we explored how to automate the OpenStack and VMware private clouds using Python. We will continue on our cloud automation journey by automating one of the most popular public clouds: Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this chapter, we will explore how to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Systems (S3) using Python script.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- AWS Python modules
- Managing AWS instances
- Automating AWS S3 services