Python Boto3 API for AWS

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🎯 About

Python API uses the Flask and Boto3 libraries. It has instance listing, instance start, instance stop, instance create and instance terminate features; It has 5 endpoints communicating with EC2 service on AWS.

✨ Features

• 🎯 About
• ✨ Features
• 🚀 Technologies
• ✅ Requirements
• 🏁 Starting
• Create Instance
• List Instances
• Start Instance
• Stop Instance
• Terminate Instance
• Resources
• 📝 License

🚀 Technologies

The following tools were used in this project:

• Python
• Flask
• Boto3
• AWS
• Docker

✅ Requirements

Before starting 🏁, you need to have Git and Python installed.

🏁 Starting

# Clone this project
git clone https://github.com/devenes/python-boto3-api
# Accesscd python-boto3-api
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run the project
python app.py
# The server will initialize in the <http://localhost:8080>

Create Instance

You send a POST request to the create endpoint with the following parameters and it will create Ubuntu EC2 instance. You create your EC2 Instance with the region_name, KeyName and SecurityGroupId parameters you send in the request.

http://<api_host>:<api_port>/ec2/create

Parameter	Type	Description
aws_access_key_id	string	AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key	string	AWS Secret Access Key
region_name	string	AWS Region Name
KeyName	string	AWS Key Name
SecurityGroupId	string	AWS Security Group ID

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List Instances

You send a GET request to the list endpoint by entering the following parameters, then you can list all the instances and their status in your AWS account in the region you specify.

http://<api_host>:<api_port>/ec2/list

Parameter	Type	Description
aws_access_key_id	string	AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key	string	AWS Secret Access Key
region_name	string	AWS Region Name

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Start Instance

You send a POST request to the start endpoint by entering the following parameters, and you can start the instance you specified with instance_id, in the region you specified with region_name and the status of the instance will be changed to pending and then to running.

http://<api_host>:<api_port>/ec2/start

Parameter	Type	Description
aws_access_key_id	string	AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key	string	AWS Secret Access Key
region_name	string	AWS Region Name
instance_id	string	Instance ID Number

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Stop Instance

You send a POST request to the stop endpoint by entering the following parameters, and you can stop the instance you specified with instance_id, in the region you specified with region_name and the status of the instance will be changed to stopping and then to stopped.

http://<api_host>:<api_port>/ec2/stop

Parameter	Type	Description
aws_access_key_id	string	AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key	string	AWS Secret Access Key
region_name	string	AWS Region Name
instance_id	string	Instance ID Number

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Terminate Instance

You send a POST request to the terminate endpoint by entering the following parameters, and you can terminate the instance you specified with instance_id, in the region you specified with region_name and the status of the instance will be changed to shutting-down and then terminated.

http://<api_host>:<api_port>/ec2/terminate

Parameter	Type	Description
aws_access_key_id	string	AWS Access Key ID
aws_secret_access_key	string	AWS Secret Access Key
region_name	string	AWS Region Name
instance_id	string	Instance ID Number

Resources

• AWS
• Docker
• Git
• Python
• Boto3

📝 License

This project is under license from MIT. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

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