We here at createTank utilize Amazon’s S3 web service for our offsite backups and content storage. We’re also big fans of the Python language for writing administration scripts. Recently, we needed to perform some simple administrative tasks on our offsite data, and found that the available Python S3 APIs didn’t give us some of the features that we needed. To scratch this itch, we wrote out own API and have made it available for others to use.

Thus, we’re proud to introduce zes3t (pronounced: zest!), a Python language, SOAP-based API for accessing Amazon’s S3 web service. Zes3t is still in its early stages, but is well-suited to administrative tasks. It very closely mimics Amazon’s own SOAP API, and the elegant, simple code base is well-documented and we’ve provided sample scripts to illustrate its usage. Zes3t is Free/Open Source software released under version 3 of the GNU LGPL.

Find out more about Zes3t on its project page:
https://createtank.org/projects/zes3t