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

Here is my oneliner, that will abort ALL multipart uploads regardless of status, assuming that you don't have any spaces in your key / filename.

BUCKETNAME=;aws s3api list-multipart-uploads --bucket $BUCKETNAME --query 'Uploads[].[Key, UploadId]' --output text | awk  '{print "aws s3api abort-multipart-upload --upload-id "$2" --bucket $BUCKETNAME --key " $1 " & wait"}{}' | bash