First project with the AWS SDK

Now, let's write our first Python application that will detect the objects in the images that are stored in an S3 bucket. To do this, we will leverage boto3 to interact with both the Amazon S3 service and the Amazon Rekognition service:

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1. The first source file that we will create is storage_service.py. Create this source file in the ObjectDetectionDemo directory. The following is the Python code for storage_service.py:

import boto3...