How do I delete/count objects in a s3 bucket?

Question

So I know this is a common question but there just doesn\'t seem to be any good answers for it.

I have a bucket with gobs (I have no clue how many) number of files in th

Answer 1

I've had the same problem with deleting hundreds of thousands of files from a bucket. It may be worthwhile to fire up an EC2 instance to run the parallel delete because the latency to S3 is low. I think there's some money to be made hosting a bunch of EC2 servers and charging people to delete buckets quickly. (At least until Amazon gets around to changing the API)