How to import a text file on AWS S3 into pandas without writing to disk
pandas uses boto for read_csv, so you should be able to: import boto data = pd.read_csv(‘s3://bucket….csv’) If you need boto3 because you are on python3.4+, you can import boto3 import io s3 = boto3.client(‘s3′) obj = s3.get_object(Bucket=”bucket”, Key=’key’) df = pd.read_csv(io.BytesIO(obj[‘Body’].read())) Since version 0.20.1 pandas uses s3fs, see answer below.