Amazon S3 Bucket Delete:
If you want to delete bucket(s) permanently without saving anything in Trash bucket, follow the steps below:
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Start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your
Amazon S3 Account
.
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Select the bucket you want to delete.
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Click on drop down button "
Advanced
" and select "
Quick Delete
" or you can Right click on Bucket to choose
Bucket Delete -> Quick Delete
option.
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If bucket which you are deleting is distributed bucket then it will ask “You have created a distribution on this bucket, are you sure you want to delete the bucket #BucketName#”.
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If selected bucket is destination bucket to delivers log files, if Amazon S3 versioning is enabled then you will be notified on deleting it.
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On confirming all notification (if any) it prompts a message "Quick Delete 1.Nothing is saved in audit report. 2.Everything gets deleted permanently,won't move in trash. 3.Quick delete operation is using Amazon S3 Multi-Object Delete API. Are you sure,you want to delete the bucket: #BucketName#” with "Delete" and "Don't delete" buttons.
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If you click on "Delete", it shows a process bar showing "Preparing listing for delete", in a box with "Cancel listing" button.
Note
: > If you click
Cancel listing
Button, it will stop listing process.
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After completion of listing, it starts deleting files and also show "Cancel delete" button.
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On completion of deletion process, you will find a button named "
Save result to file
". It will save delete history to CSV file at temporary path.