Glossary: Virtualization and Cloud Basics

client

Also written: boto3 client, boto3.client

A boto3 object for one AWS service, with one method per API action: ListBuckets becomes `list_buckets()`. shopstack.py makes one client each for EC2, S3, IAM and Auto Scaling.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 10: APIs, the CLI and Infrastructure as Code
Chapter 11: Serverless and microservices
Chapter 12: Project: the shop on a local cloud

Related terms

boto3 API (application programming interface)