Deletes an empty S3 bucket. A bucket must be completely empty of objects and versioned objects before it can be deleted. However, the --force
parameter can be used to delete the non-versioned objects in the bucket before the bucket is deleted.
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
rb
<S3Uri>
[--force]
path
(string)
--force
(boolean)
Deletes all objects in the bucket including the bucket itself. Note that versioned objects will not be deleted in this process which would cause the bucket deletion to fail because the bucket would not be empty. To delete versioned objects use the s3api delete-object
command with the --version-id
parameter.
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
The following rb
command removes a bucket. In this example, the user’s bucket is mybucket
. Note that the bucket must be empty in order to remove:
aws s3 rb s3://mybucket
Output:
remove_bucket: mybucket
The following rb
command uses the --force
parameter to first remove all of the objects in the bucket and then
remove the bucket itself. In this example, the user’s bucket is mybucket
and the objects in mybucket
are
test1.txt
and test2.txt
:
aws s3 rb s3://mybucket --force
Output:
delete: s3://mybucket/test1.txt
delete: s3://mybucket/test2.txt
remove_bucket: mybucket