rb¶
Description¶
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.
Synopsis¶
rb
<S3Uri>
[--force]
Options¶
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.
Examples¶
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
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