How to upload a file to directory in S3 bucket using boto

Upload file to s3 within a session with credentials.

import boto3

session = boto3.Session(
    aws_access_key_id='AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID',
    aws_secret_access_key='AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY',
)
s3 = session.resource('s3')
# Filename - File to upload
# Bucket - Bucket to upload to (the top level directory under AWS S3)
# Key - S3 object name (can contain subdirectories). If not specified then file_name is used
s3.meta.client.upload_file(Filename='input_file_path', Bucket='bucket_name', Key='s3_output_key')

import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
BUCKET = "test"

s3.Bucket(BUCKET).upload_file("your/local/file", "dump/file")

NOTE: This answer uses boto. See the other answer that uses boto3, which is newer.

Try this...

import boto
import boto.s3
import sys
from boto.s3.key import Key

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = ''
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = ''

bucket_name = AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.lower() + '-dump'
conn = boto.connect_s3(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)


bucket = conn.create_bucket(bucket_name,
    location=boto.s3.connection.Location.DEFAULT)

testfile = "replace this with an actual filename"
print 'Uploading %s to Amazon S3 bucket %s' % \
   (testfile, bucket_name)

def percent_cb(complete, total):
    sys.stdout.write('.')
    sys.stdout.flush()


k = Key(bucket)
k.key = 'my test file'
k.set_contents_from_filename(testfile,
    cb=percent_cb, num_cb=10)

[UPDATE] I am not a pythonist, so thanks for the heads up about the import statements. Also, I'd not recommend placing credentials inside your own source code. If you are running this inside AWS use IAM Credentials with Instance Profiles (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html), and to keep the same behaviour in your Dev/Test environment, use something like Hologram from AdRoll (https://github.com/AdRoll/hologram)

No need to make it that complicated:

s3_connection = boto.connect_s3()
bucket = s3_connection.get_bucket('your bucket name')
key = boto.s3.key.Key(bucket, 'some_file.zip')
with open('some_file.zip') as f:
    key.send_file(f)