Delete Amazon S3 buckets? [closed]

Answer 1

If you have ruby (and rubygems) installed, install aws-s3 gem with

gem install aws-s3

or

sudo gem install aws-s3

create a file delete_bucket.rb:

require "rubygems" # optional
require "aws/s3"
AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
  :access_key_id     => 'access_key_id',
  :secret_access_key => 'secret_access_key')
AWS::S3::Bucket.delete("bucket_name", :force => true)

and run it:

ruby delete_bucket.rb

Since Bucket#delete returned timeout exceptions a lot for me, I have expanded the script:

require "rubygems" # optional
require "aws/s3"
AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
  :access_key_id     => 'access_key_id',
  :secret_access_key => 'secret_access_key')
while AWS::S3::Bucket.find("bucket_name")
  begin
    AWS::S3::Bucket.delete("bucket_name", :force => true)
  rescue
  end
end