Ping Amazon Elasticsearch Service in Python3

es_ping.py

import sys
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, RequestsHttpConnection
from aws_requests_auth.boto_utils import BotoAWSRequestsAuth

# sanity check Python version
assert(sys.version_info >= (3,6))

ES_ENDPOINT = 'search-dev-logs-kxsz2asdflkjlaksdfie7i36iry.ap-southeast-2.es.amazonaws.com'
AWS_REGION  = 'ap-southeast-2'

# set up Elasticsearch client and check connectivity
auth = BotoAWSRequestsAuth(aws_host=ES_ENDPOINT,
                           aws_region=AWS_REGION,
                           aws_service='es')
es = Elasticsearch('https://'+ES_ENDPOINT,
                   connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection,
                   http_auth=auth)
assert(es.ping())

requirements.txt

boto3==1.9.4
elasticsearch==6.3.1
urllib3==1.23
chardet==3.0.4
certifi>=2018.8.24
aws-requests-auth==0.4.2