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+# boto
+boto 2.1.1
+31-Oct-2011
+
+## Introduction
+
+Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
+At the moment, boto supports:
+
+ * Simple Storage Service (S3)
+ * SimpleQueue Service (SQS)
+ * Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
+ * Mechanical Turk
+ * SimpleDB
+ * CloudFront
+ * CloudWatch
+ * AutoScale
+ * Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
+ * Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
+ * Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
+ * Relational Data Service (RDS) 
+ * Simple Notification Server (SNS)
+ * Google Storage
+ * Identity and Access Management (IAM)
+ * Route53 DNS Service (route53)
+ * Simple Email Service (SES)
+ * Flexible Payment Service (FPS)
+ * CloudFormation
+
+The goal of boto is to support the full breadth and depth of Amazon
+Web Services.  In addition, boto provides support for other public
+services such as Google Storage in addition to private cloud systems
+like Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Open Nebula.
+
+Boto is developed mainly using Python 2.6.6 and Python 2.7.1 on Mac OSX
+and Ubuntu Maverick.  It is known to work on other Linux distributions
+and on Windows.  Boto requires no additional libraries or packages
+other than those that are distributed with Python.  Efforts are made
+to keep boto compatible with Python 2.5.x but no guarantees are made.
+
+## Finding Out More About Boto
+
+The main source code repository for boto can be found on
+[github.com](http://github.com/boto/boto)
+
+[Online documentation](http://readthedocs.org/docs/boto/) is also
+available.  The online documentation includes full API documentation
+as well as Getting Started Guides for many of the boto modules.
+
+Boto releases can be found on the [Google Project
+page](http://code.google.com/p/boto/downloads/list) or on the [Python
+Cheese Shop](http://pypi.python.org/).
+
+Join our `IRC channel`_ (#boto on FreeNode).
+    IRC channel: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=boto
+
+## Getting Started with Boto
+
+Your credentials can be passed into the methods that create 
+connections.  Alternatively, boto will check for the existance of the
+following environment variables to ascertain your credentials:
+
+AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - Your AWS Access Key ID
+AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Your AWS Secret Access Key
+
+Credentials and other boto-related settings can also be stored in a
+boto config file.  See
+[this](http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/BotoConfig) for details.
+
+Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mitch Garnaat <mitch@garnaat.com>
+Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.
+All rights reserved.