This is a more up to date answer:
import s3fs
s3 = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=False)
# Use 'w' for py3, 'wb' for py2
with s3.open('<bucket-name>/<filename>.csv','w') as f:
df.to_csv(f)
The problem with StringIO is that it will eat away at your memory. With this method, you are streaming the file to s3, rather than converting it to string, then writing it into s3. Holding the pandas dataframe and its string copy in memory seems very inefficient.
If you are working in an ec2 instant, you can give it an IAM role to enable writing it to s3, thus you dont need to pass in credentials directly. However, you can also connect to a bucket by passing credentials to the S3FileSystem()
function. See documention:https://s3fs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/