How to write a file or data to an S3 object using boto3

Question

In boto 2, you can write to an S3 object using these methods:

• Key.set_contents_from_string()
• Key.set_contents_from_file()
• Key.set_contents_fr

Answer 1

A cleaner and concise version which I use to upload files on the fly to a given S3 bucket and sub-folder-

import boto3

BUCKET_NAME = 'sample_bucket_name'
PREFIX = 'sub-folder/'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

# Creating an empty file called "_DONE" and putting it in the S3 bucket
s3.Object(BUCKET_NAME, PREFIX + '_DONE').put(Body="")

Note: You should ALWAYS put your AWS credentials (aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key) in a separate file, for example- ~/.aws/credentials