from boto.s3.bucket import Bucket from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection from boto.s3.key import Key s3conn = S3Connection() bucketname = 'dev-hackathon' keyname_format = '/hotness/charts/{start}-{end}-{country}-{genre}.json' keyname = keyname_format.format( # ... ) bucket = Bucket(s3conn, bucketname) key = Key(bucket, keyname)