Command Line Tools

Introduction

Boto ships with a number of command line utilities, which are installed when the package is installed. This guide outlines which ones are available & what they do.

Note

If you’re not already depending on these utilities, you may wish to check out the AWS-CLI (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ - User Guide & Reference Guide). It provides much wider & complete access to the AWS services.

The included utilities available are:

asadmin

Works with Autoscaling

bundle_image

Creates a bundled AMI in S3 based on a EC2 instance

cfadmin

Works with CloudFront & invalidations

cq

Works with SQS queues

cwutil

Works with CloudWatch

dynamodb_dump dynamodb_load

Handle dumping/loading data from DynamoDB tables

elbadmin

Manages Elastic Load Balancer instances

fetch_file

Downloads an S3 key to disk

glacier

Lists vaults, jobs & uploads files to Glacier

instance_events

Lists all events for EC2 reservations

kill_instance

Kills a list of EC2 instances

launch_instance

Launches an EC2 instance

list_instances

Lists all of your EC2 instances

lss3

Lists what keys you have within a bucket in S3

mturk

Provides a number of facilities for interacting with Mechanical Turk

pyami_sendmail

Sends an email from the Pyami instance

route53

Interacts with the Route53 service

s3put

Uploads a directory or a specific file(s) to S3

sdbadmin

Allows for working with SimpleDB domains

taskadmin

A tool for working with the tasks in SimpleDB