What is the fastest way to empty s3 bucket using boto3?

Question

I was thinking about deleting and then re-creating bucket (bad option which I realised later).

Then how can delete all objects from the bucket?

I tried this : http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/s3.html#S3.Bucket.delete_objects

But it deletes multiple objects not all.

can you suggest what is the best way to empty bucket ?

Answer 1

Just use aws cli.

aws s3 rm s3://mybucket --recursive 

Well, for longer answer if you insists to use boto3. This will send a delete marker to s3. No folder handling required. bucket.Object.all will create a iterator that not limit to 1K .

import boto3     s3 = boto3.resource('s3') bucket = s3.Bucket('my-bucket') # suggested by Jordon Philips  bucket.objects.all().delete() 

Answer 2

If versioning is enabled, there's a similar call to the other answer to delete all object versions:

import boto3 s3 = boto3.resource('s3') bucket = s3.Bucket('bucket-name') bucket.object_versions.delete()