How to handle errors with boto3?

Question

I am trying to figure how to do proper error handling with boto3.

I am trying to create an IAM user:

def create_user(username, iam_conn):
    try:
           


        

Answer 1

In case you have to deal with the arguably unfriendly logs client (CloudWatch Logs put-log-events), this is what I had to do to properly catch Boto3 client exceptions:

try:
    ### Boto3 client code here...

except boto_exceptions.ClientError as error:
    Log.warning("Catched client error code %s",
                error.response['Error']['Code'])

    if error.response['Error']['Code'] in ["DataAlreadyAcceptedException",
                                           "InvalidSequenceTokenException"]:
        Log.debug(
            "Fetching sequence_token from boto error response['Error']['Message'] %s",
            error.response["Error"]["Message"])
        # NOTE: apparently there's no sequenceToken attribute in the response so we have
        # to parse response["Error"]["Message"] string
        sequence_token = error.response["Error"]["Message"].split(":")[-1].strip(" ")
        Log.debug("Setting sequence_token to %s", sequence_token)

This works both at first attempt (with empty LogStream) and subsequent ones.