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

Even though technically it's not AWS CLI, I'd recommend using AWS Tools for Powershell for this task. Then you can use the simple command as below:

Remove-S3Bucket -BucketName {bucket-name} -DeleteBucketContent -Force -Region {region}

As stated in the documentation, DeleteBucketContent flag does the following:

"If set, all remaining objects and/or object versions in the bucket are deleted proir (sic) to the bucket itself being deleted"

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/