**Developer Preview** — This documentation covers the AWS SDK for Python, which is in Developer Preview and intended for evaluation and testing only. Do not use it for production workloads. For production applications, use the [AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/boto3/latest/guide/quickstart.html). To understand the differences between the two SDKs, see [Choosing the right AWS SDK for Python](choosing-sdk.md).

# Using the AWS SDK for Python
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This chapter describes general programming patterns for supported AWS services, beyond what is covered in [Getting started with the AWS SDK for Python](getting-started.md). For service-specific operations, see [Working with AWS services](working-with-services.md).

Before using these patterns, configure credentials and an AWS Region as described in [Configuration](configuring.md).

**Topics**
+ [Making requests and handling responses](using-requests.md)
+ [Using the SDK asynchronously](using-async.md)
+ [Running concurrent operations](using-concurrency.md)
+ [Working with event streams](using-streaming.md)
+ [Handling errors](using-errors.md)
+ [Customizing SDK behavior with plugins and interceptors](using-extensions.md)
+ [Testing applications that use the SDK](using-testing.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS SDK for Python. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query sdk-for-python` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).