import boto3 import botocore import pprint pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=5, width=80) #from http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html regions = ['us-east-1', 'us-east-2', 'us-west-1', 'us-west-2', 'ca-central-1', 'eu-central-1', 'eu-west-1', 'eu-west-2', 'ap-northeast-1', 'ap-northeast-2', 'ap-southeast-1', 'ap-southeast-2', ] def describe_db_instances(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY): print("doing stuff") try: for region in regions: client = boto3.client( 'rds', aws_access_key_id = AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, aws_secret_access_key = AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, region_name=region ) instances = client.describe_db_instances() for r in instances['DBInstances']: for i in r['Instances']: pp.pprint(i) except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e: print e