Step-By-Step Guide to Read Files Content from S3 Bucket

Steps to Create S3 Buckets and Upload Files and Folders

Step 2: After signing in, you will land on the AWS Management Console page and search for S3 as shown below.

AWS Management Console

Step 3: From the sidebar go to Buckets. Click on Create bucket this will create a bucket.

Create Bucket Form

Step 4: Enter your bucket name, make sure your bucket name is unique.

Bucket name

Step 5: Create bucket, no need to change other things keep them as it is.

Create Bucket

Step 6: Goto buckets page again, this will list all buckets.

Buckets

Step 7: We will upload and read files from ‘gfg-s3-test-bucket‘. Open your bucket.

Open Bucket

Step 8: Click on the Upload button. You can also Create Folder inside buckthe et. Select Add File/ Folder to add them.

Upload Files/Folders

Step 9: Verify if files/folders added properly or not, then Upload it.

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Reading contents from file using boto3

Verify

Step 10: All the files are uploaded successfully, now we can start reading those using Boto3.

Upload Successfully

How to Read File Content from S3 Bucket with Boto3 ?

AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service), a scalable and secure object storage service, is often the go-to solution for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere. Boto3 is the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python, which provides an object-oriented API for AWS infrastructure services. It allows Python developers to build applications on top of Amazon services.

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