Amazon S3 boto: How do you rename a file in a bucket?

You can't rename files in Amazon S3. You can copy them with a new name, then delete the original, but there's no proper rename function.

Here is an example of a Python function that will copy an S3 object using Boto 2:

import boto

def copy_object(src_bucket_name,
                src_key_name,
                dst_bucket_name,
                dst_key_name,
                metadata=None,
                preserve_acl=True):
    """
    Copy an existing object to another location.

    src_bucket_name   Bucket containing the existing object.
    src_key_name      Name of the existing object.
    dst_bucket_name   Bucket to which the object is being copied.
    dst_key_name      The name of the new object.
    metadata          A dict containing new metadata that you want
                      to associate with this object.  If this is None
                      the metadata of the original object will be
                      copied to the new object.
    preserve_acl      If True, the ACL from the original object
                      will be copied to the new object.  If False
                      the new object will have the default ACL.
    """
    s3 = boto.connect_s3()
    bucket = s3.lookup(src_bucket_name)

    # Lookup the existing object in S3
    key = bucket.lookup(src_key_name)

    # Copy the key back on to itself, with new metadata
    return key.copy(dst_bucket_name, dst_key_name,
                    metadata=metadata, preserve_acl=preserve_acl)