Delete Amazon S3 buckets? [closed]

Answer 1

Use the amazon web managment console. With Google chrome for speed. Deleted the objects a lot faster than firefox (about 10 times faster). Had 60 000 objects to delete.

Answer 2

If you use amazon's console and on a one-time basis need to clear out a bucket: You can browse to your bucket then select the top key then scroll to the bottom and then press shift on your keyboard then click on the bottom one. It will select all in between then you can right click and delete.

Answer 3

recent versions of s3cmd have --recursive

e.g.,

~/$ s3cmd rb --recursive s3://bucketwithfiles

http://s3tools.org/kb/item5.htm

Answer 4

I've implemented bucket-destroy, a multi threaded utility that does everything it takes to delete a bucket. I handle non empty buckets, as well as version enabled bucket keys.

You can read the blog post here http://bytecoded.blogspot.com/2011/01/recursive-delete-utility-for-version.html and the instructions here http://code.google.com/p/bucket-destroy/

I've successfully deleted with it a bucket that contains double '//' in the key name, versioned key and DeleteMarker keys. Currently I'm running it on a bucket that contains ~40,000,000 so far I've been able to delete 1,200,000 in several hours on m1.large. Note that the utility is multi threaded but does not (yet) implemented shuffling (which will horizontal scaling, launching the utility on several machines).

Answer 5

I've always ended up using their C# API and little scripts to do this. I'm not sure why S3Fox can't do it, but that functionality appears to be broken within it at the moment. I'm sure that many of the other S3 tools can do it as well, though.

Answer 6

Try https://s3explorer.appspot.com/ to manage your S3 account.