## Connecting to Amazon Keyspaces with Python

This sample project shows the use of the DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra using SigV4.

### Prerequisites
You should have Python and pip installed.  This sample works with Python 2.7, and 3.x.

You should also setup Amazon Keyspaces with an IAM user.  See [Accessing Amazon Keyspaces](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/latest/devguide/accessing.html) for more.

### Running the sample

This sample uses Boto which will find credentials based on environment variable, config or credentials file see [Boto3 Credentials Guide](https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html) for how to set this up.  

You can quickly get this to run by explicitly setting the following environment variables...

- AWS_REGION  (for example 'us-east-1)
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID  (ex: 'AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE')
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (ex: 'wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY')

### Install the dependencies 

From the project directory... 
```
$ pip install .
```

### Testing
From this project directory...
```
$ python sigv4_sample/connectkeyspaces.py
```

Alternatively you can run the following script after you have done a pip install.

```
$ amazon-keyspaces-python-connect-sample
```