howto abort all incomplete multipart uploads for a bucket

Question

Sometimes multipart uploads hang or don\'t complete for some reason. In that case you are stuck with orphaned parts that are tricky to remove. You can list them with:

Answer 1

Assuming you have your awscli all setup and it'll output JSON you can use jq to project the needed keys with:

BUCKETNAME=
aws s3api list-multipart-uploads --bucket $BUCKETNAME \
| jq -r '.Uploads[] | "--key \"\(.Key)\" --upload-id \(.UploadId)"' \
| while read -r line; do
    eval "aws s3api abort-multipart-upload --bucket $BUCKETNAME $line";
done