def get_buckets(self):
    """
    Documentation:

        ---
        Description:
            Associate each S3 bucket name with its S3 bucket object.

        ---
        Returns:
           raw_bucket : dict
                Dictonary where the keys are S3 bucket names and the
                values are the associated S3 bucket objects.
    """
    # gather S3 bucket object for each S3 bucket name
    raw_buckets = {}
    for instance in self.s3_resource.buckets.all():
        raw_buckets[instance.name] = instance

    return raw_buckets