A low-level interface to a growing number of Amazon Web Services. The botocore package is the foundation for the AWS CLI as well as boto3.
Botocore is maintained and published by Amazon Web Services.
Notices
On 2026-04-29, support for Python 3.9 ended for Botocore. This follows the Python Software Foundation end of support for the runtime which occurred on 2025-10-31.
For more information, see this blog post.
Getting Started
Assuming that you have Python and virtualenv installed, set up your environment and install the required dependencies like this or you can install the library using pip:
$ git clone https://github.com/boto/botocore.git
$ cd botocore
$ python -m venv .venv
...
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python -m pip install -e .$ pip install botocoreUsing Botocore
After installing botocore
Next, set up credentials (in e.g. ~/.aws/credentials):
[default]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRETThen, set up a default region (in e.g. ~/.aws/config):
[default]
region=us-east-1Other credentials configuration method can be found here
Then, from a Python interpreter:
>>> import botocore.session
>>> session = botocore.session.get_session()
>>> client = session.create_client('ec2')
>>> print(client.describe_instances())Getting Help
We use GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests and have limited bandwidth to address them. Please use these community resources for getting help. Please note many of the same resources available for boto3 are applicable for botocore:
Ask a question on Stack Overflow and tag it with boto3
Open a support ticket with AWS Support
If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue
Contributing
We value feedback and contributions from our community. Whether it’s a bug report, new feature, correction, or additional documentation, we welcome your issues and pull requests. Please read through this CONTRIBUTING document before submitting any issues or pull requests to ensure we have all the necessary information to effectively respond to your contribution.
Maintenance and Support for SDK Major Versions
Botocore was made generally available on 06/22/2015 and is currently in the full support phase of the availability life cycle.
For information about maintenance and support for SDK major versions and their underlying dependencies, see the following in the AWS SDKs and Tools Reference Guide:
More Resources
Release files for botocore 1.43.61
For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.
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