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[ aws . s3 ]

rb

Description

Deletes an empty S3 bucket. A bucket must be completely empty of objects and versioned objects before it can be deleted. However, the --force parameter can be used to delete the non-versioned objects in the bucket before the bucket is deleted.

Synopsis

  rb
<S3Uri>
[--force]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

path (string)

--force (boolean) Deletes all objects in the bucket including the bucket itself. Note that versioned objects will not be deleted in this process which would cause the bucket deletion to fail because the bucket would not be empty. To delete versioned objects use the s3api delete-object command with the --version-id parameter.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

• json
• text
• table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

• on
• off
• auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: Delete a bucket

The following rb command removes a bucket. In this example, the user's bucket is mybucket. Note that the bucket must be empty in order to remove:

aws s3 rb s3://mybucket

Output:

remove_bucket: mybucket

Example 2: Force delete a bucket

The following rb command uses the --force parameter to first remove all of the objects in the bucket and then remove the bucket itself. In this example, the user's bucket is mybucket and the objects in mybucket are test1.txt and test2.txt:

aws s3 rb s3://mybucket \
    --force

Output:

delete: s3://mybucket/test1.txt
delete: s3://mybucket/test2.txt
remove_bucket: mybucket