Fast way of deleting non-empty Google bucket?

Question

Is this my only option or is there a faster way?

# Delete contents in bucket (takes a long time on large bucket)
gsutil -m rm -r gs://my-bucket/*

# Remove bucke         


        

Answer 1

This deserves to be summarized and pointed out.

Deleting with gsutil rm is slow if you have LOTS (terabytes) of data

gsutil -m rm -r gs://my-bucket

However, you can specify the expiration for the bucket and let the GCS do the work for you. Create a fast-delete.json policy:

{
   "rule":[
      {
         "action":{
            "type":"Delete"
         },
         "condition":{
            "age":0
         }
      }
   ]
}

then apply

gsutil lifecycle set fast-delete.json gs://MY-BUCKET

Thanks, @jterrace and @Janosch