aws s3 remove_bucket failed: You must delete all versions in the bucket

Currently this is a limitation in S3 but you can use external programs using python with boto or boto3 or java to delete through the versions and then delete the bucket.

else

use console to delete the versions and then delete the bucket.

Below I am boto to delete the versions and then the empty bucket.

shaiks@shaikslinux>aws s3  ls s3://
2017-10-11 15:56:55 shaiks3333
2017-10-05 18:55:57 shaiks3334
2017-10-06 03:55:40 thecloudgenie.com
2017-10-05 18:58:51 www.thecloudgenie.com


Here is error message:
shaiks@shaikslinux>aws s3  rb s3://shaiks3333/
remove_bucket failed: s3://shaiks3333/ An error occurred (BucketNotEmpty) when calling the DeleteBucket operation: The bucket you tried to delete is not empty. You must delete all versions in the bucket.

Using boto to delete the versions:

shaiks@shaikslinux>python remove_bucket3.py

shaiks@shaikslinux>cat remove_bucket3.py

import boto3

BUCKET = 'shaiks3333'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

bucket = s3.Bucket(BUCKET)

bucket.object_versions.delete()

# if you want to delete the now-empty bucket 

bucket.delete()

shaiks@shaikslinux>aws s3 ls s3://

2017-10-05 18:55:57 shaiks3334

2017-10-06 03:55:40 thecloudgenie.com

2017-10-05 18:58:51 www.thecloudgenie.com

Bucket shaiks3333 is now deleted from s3: