How do I delete a versioned bucket in AWS S3 using the CLI?

Question

I have tried both s3cmd:

$ s3cmd -r -f -v del s3://my-versioned-bucket/

And the AWS CLI:

$ aws s3 rm s3://my-v         


        

Answer 1

One way to do it is iterate through the versions and delete them. A bit tricky on the CLI, but as you mentioned Java, that would be more straightforward:

AmazonS3Client s3 = new AmazonS3Client();
String bucketName = "deleteversions-"+UUID.randomUUID();

//Creates Bucket
s3.createBucket(bucketName);

//Enable Versioning
BucketVersioningConfiguration configuration = new BucketVersioningConfiguration(ENABLED);
s3.setBucketVersioningConfiguration(new SetBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest(bucketName, configuration ));

//Puts versions
s3.putObject(bucketName, "some-key",new ByteArrayInputStream("some-bytes".getBytes()), null);
s3.putObject(bucketName, "some-key",new ByteArrayInputStream("other-bytes".getBytes()), null);

//Removes all versions
for ( S3VersionSummary version : S3Versions.inBucket(s3, bucketName) ) {
    String key = version.getKey();
    String versionId = version.getVersionId();          
    s3.deleteVersion(bucketName, key, versionId);
}

//Removes the bucket
s3.deleteBucket(bucketName);
System.out.println("Done!");

You can also batch delete calls for efficiency if needed.