Error SSL CERTIFICATION VERIFY FAILED while trying to connect to S3

Question

I am trying to connect to S3 using boto, but i am getting an error. [SSL : CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED].

Can anyone help me with this? I have attached the code below.

import boto

if not boto.config.has_section('Credentials'):
    boto.config.add_section('Credentials')
boto.config.set('Credentials', 'aws_access_key_id', AWS_KEY)
boto.config.set('Credentials', 'aws_secret_access_key', AWS_SECRET_KEY)
if not boto.config.has_section('Boto'):
    boto.config.add_section('Boto')
    boto.config.set('Boto', 'https_validate_certificates', 'False')
    boto.config.add_section('aws info')
    boto.config.set('aws info','aws_validate_certs','False')
s3 = boto.connect_s3(validate_certs=False)
bucket = s3.get_bucket(Bucket_NAME)

Answer 1

Probably your bucket name contains a dot, that's why ssl certificate verification fails. This is quite a frequent problem.

Don't use an insecure connection (is_secure=False), instead use OrdinaryCallingFormat:

import boto conn = boto.s3.connect_to_region('eu-west-1', calling_format=boto.s3.connection.OrdinaryCallingFormat()) bucket = conn.get_bucket(your_bucket)

You might probably need to update your AWS Region as well.