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I have a dozen of buckets that I would like to remove in AWS S3, all having a similar name containing bucket-to-remove and with some objects in it.
Using the UI is quite slow, is there a solution to remove all these buckets quickly using the CLI?
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To delete multiple S3 objects using a single HTTP request, you can use the AWS CLI, or an AWS SDK. To empty an S3 bucket of its objects, you can use the Amazon S3 console, AWS CLI, lifecycle configuration rule, or AWS SDK.
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/ . In the Buckets list, select the option next to the name of the bucket that you want to delete, and then choose Delete at the top of the page.
Navigate to the Amazon S3 bucket or folder that contains the objects that you want to delete. Select the check box to the left of the names of the objects that you want to delete. Choose Actions and choose Delete from the list of options that appears. Alternatively, choose Delete from the options in the upper right.
To delete multiple files from an S3 Bucket with the AWS CLI, run the s3 rm command, passing in the exclude and include parameters to filter the files the command is applied to. Let's run the command in test mode first.
You could try this sample line to delete all at once. Remember that this is highly destructive, so I hope you know what you are doing:
for bucket in $(aws s3 ls | awk '{print $3}' | grep my-bucket-pattern); do aws s3 rb "s3://${bucket}" --force ; done
You are done with that. May take a while depending on the amount of buckets and their content.
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