The interesting thing is that the Boto S3 tutorial (http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/s3_tut.html http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/s3_tut.html) uses s3.g

The interesting thing is that the Boto S3 tutorial (http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/s3_tut.html http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/s3_tut.html) uses s3.get_bucket() with impunity and never mentions you're paying 13.5x more for your usage if you use that bucket object for just one GET and don't pass validate=False. (Perhaps someone from AWS wrote that tutorial? :P) Probably deserves a mention there, though.