Delete a bucket

Empty clears every object out of a bucket while keeping the bucket itself; Delete removes the bucket and everything in it. Both are on the bucket’s Actions menu, and neither can be undone. If you still need some of the data, copy it out first with a tool such as mc; see Connect with the mc client.

Empty a bucket

Open the Actions menu, select Empty, and confirm. Every object in the bucket is permanently deleted; the bucket stays and can be reused.

Delete a bucket

Open the Actions menu, select Delete, and confirm. Deletion is processed in the background and can take a while depending on how much data is in the bucket. When it finishes, the bucket is gone from your bucket list.

If the bucket will not delete

A default lock policy on the bucket, or an active replication rule with this bucket as the source or the destination, each block deletion until cleared. A version under Legal Hold blocks deleting that version, not the bucket itself; see Lock objects with Object Lock to clear it. See Troubleshooting E2E Object Storage for exactly what to check.

To remove old objects on a schedule instead, without deleting the bucket, see Set a lifecycle rule.