Randomly Named S3 Bucket Generator

This function uses the boto3 library to create a randomly named S3 bucket and checks if the bucket name is already in use.

Technology Stack : boto3

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import boto3
import random

def random_s3_bucket_name(prefix):
    """
    Generate a random S3 bucket name with a given prefix.
    """
    client = boto3.client('s3')
    while True:
        # Generate a random string of 10 characters
        random_string = ''.join(random.choices('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', k=10))
        bucket_name = f"{prefix}{random_string}"
        try:
            # Check if the bucket name is available
            client.head_bucket(Bucket=bucket_name)
        except client.exceptions.ClientError as e:
            if e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'NoSuchBucket':
                break
            else:
                raise e
    return bucket_name