Deleting a Bucket

You can delete an empty bucket that you created and that you no longer need.

Deleting a Bucket Using AWS CLI (s3api)

Before you begin:

To delete a bucket, use the delete-bucket command following this syntax:

Request sample
$ aws s3api delete-bucket \
    --profile YOUR_PROFILE \
    --bucket BUCKET \
    --endpoint https://oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com

This command contains the following options that you need to specify:

  • (optional) profile: The named profile you want to use, created when configuring AWS CLI. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

  • bucket: The name of the bucket you want to delete.

  • endpoint: The endpoint corresponding to the Region you want to send the request to. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

The bucket is deleted.

Deleting a Bucket Using AWS CLI (s3)

Before you begin:

To delete a bucket, use the rb command following this syntax:

$ aws s3 rb s3://YOUR_BUCKET \
    --profile YOUR_PROFILE \
    --debug  \
    --force \
    --endpoint https://oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com

This command contains the following options that you need to specify:

  • (optional) profile: The named profile you want to use, created when configuring AWS CLI. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

  • s3://YOUR_BUCKET: The name of the bucket you want to delete.

  • (optional) debug: When included, returns the detailed log of the operation. This is useful to analyze and troubleshoot issues you may be encountering.

  • (optional) force: Deletes all objects contained within the bucket along with the bucket itself.

    The command fails if the bucket contains versioned objects. To delete versioned objects, see Removing-Objects-from-a-Bucket.adoc#_Removing_Objects_from_a_Bucket_Using_AWS_CLI_s3api.

  • endpoint: The endpoint corresponding to the Region you want to send the request to. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

The bucket is deleted.

Deleting a Bucket Using s3cmd

Before you begin:

You can manage your object storage resources using s3cmd commands. For more information, see s3cmd.

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