Can't delete directory from Amazon S3

Question

I\'m using the web interface of Amazon\'s S3, and when I right-click a folder X and choose Delete, X seems to be deleted. Then when I refresh the interface, X may either disappe

Answer 1

Tried various alternatives to delete from Web interface to delete a folder with sub folders in it without luck. I had an installation of S3 browser and then tried from S3 Browser interface, worked.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and didn't have access to the amazon console but I could delete it with this Java code

    AmazonS3Client amazonS3Client = new AmazonS3Client(basicAWSCredentials);
    ObjectListing objectListing = amazonS3Client.listObjects("bucketName", "prefix");
    DeleteObjectsRequest deleteObjectsRequest = new DeleteObjectsRequest("bucketName");
    List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete = new ArrayList<>();
    objectListing.getObjectSummaries().forEach(s3ObjectSummary -> {
        keysToDelete.add(new DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion(s3ObjectSummary.getKey()));
    });
    deleteObjectsRequest.setKeys(keysToDelete);
    amazonS3Client.deleteObjects(deleteObjectsRequest);

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    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
        <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.4</version>
    </dependency>

Answer 3

S3 does not actually use folders. Instead the path separators in object paths are treated like folders. If you want to remove a folder, all the contents of the folder will have to get deleted.

If there is any delay in deleting all of the contents, the folder may continue to exist.

Answer 4

I have the same problem that I cant delete a s3 bucket, with the message "An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the DeleteBucket operation: Access Denied"

After a while, I delete the bucket policy in tab "permission" button "bucket policy" and It worked like a charm, with:

aws s3 rb s3://elasticbeanstalk-us-west-..../ --force

I hope this help! Is another option Pablo