Is it possible to get the contents of an S3 file without downloading it using boto3?

Question

I am working on a process to dump files from a Redshift database, and would prefer not to have to locally download the files to process the data. I saw that

Answer 1

If you have a mybucket S3 bucket, which contains a beer key, here is how to download and fetch the value without storing it in a local file:

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
print s3.Object('mybucket', 'beer').get()['Body'].read()