Change the number of request retries in boto3

Question

In boto3 or botocore, how do I do the equivalent of setting the number of request retries?

e.g. in boto2

from boto import config config.set('Boto', 'num_retries', '20') 

How do I do this in boto3? I've tried

conn._session.set_config_variable("num_retries", "20") 

but when I then get_config_variable("num_retries"), None is returned.

Answer 1

You should now be able to do this, at least for ec2 and perhaps other clients as well:

from botocore.config import Config  config = Config(     retries = dict(         max_attempts = 10     ) )  ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', config=config)