---
id: botocore
version: "1.43.70"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# botocore — Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 100 on PyPI

## Install

pip install botocore
uv add botocore
poetry add botocore

## Description

botocore
========

|Version| |Python| |License|

A low-level interface to a growing number of Amazon Web Services. The
botocore package is the foundation for the
`AWS CLI <https://github.com/aws/aws-cli>`__ as well as
`boto3 <https://github.com/boto/boto3>`__.

Botocore is maintained and published by `Amazon Web Services`_.

Notices
-------

On 2026-04-29, support for Python 3.9 ended for Botocore. This follows the
Python Software Foundation `end of support <https://peps.python.org/pep-0596/#lifespan>`__
for the runtime which occurred on 2025-10-31.

For more information, see this `blog post <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/>`__.

.. _`Amazon Web Services`: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Botocore is the low-level, data-driven foundation for AWS service interactions, providing the core client and session management that powers the AWS CLI and boto3 library.

Verdict: Botocore is a production-ready, actively maintained AWS SDK foundation with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and minimal dependencies. It is the canonical choice for low-level AWS service access in Python and is backed by Amazon Web Services.

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