How to choose an AWS profile when using boto3 to connect to CloudFront
I think the docs aren't wonderful at exposing how to do this. It has been a supported feature for some time, however, and there are some details in this pull request.
So there are three different ways to do this:
Option A) Create a new session with the profile
dev = boto3.session.Session(profile_name='dev')Option B) Change the profile of the default session in code
boto3.setup_default_session(profile_name='dev')Option C) Change the profile of the default session with an environment variable
$ AWS_PROFILE=dev ipython >>> import boto3 >>> s3dev = boto3.resource('s3')
Do this to use a profile with name 'dev':
session = boto3.session.Session(profile_name='dev')s3 = session.resource('s3')for bucket in s3.buckets.all(): print(bucket.name)
This section of the boto3 documentation is helpful.
Here's what worked for me:
session = boto3.Session(profile_name='dev')client = session.client('cloudfront')