DeleteBucket - Amazon Simple Storage Service (original) (raw)

Deletes the S3 bucket. All objects (including all object versions and delete markers) in the bucket must be deleted before the bucket itself can be deleted.

Note

Permissions

HTTP Host header syntax

Directory buckets - The HTTP Host header syntax is s3express-control._region-code_.amazonaws.com.

The following operations are related to DeleteBucket:

Request Syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Specifies the bucket being deleted.

Directory buckets - When you use this operation with a directory bucket, you must use path-style requests in the format https://s3express-control._region-code_.amazonaws.com/_bucket-name_ . Virtual-hosted-style requests aren't supported. Directory bucket names must be unique in the chosen Zone (Availability Zone or Local Zone). Bucket names must also follow the format _bucket-base-name_--_zone-id_--x-s3 (for example, _DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET_--_usw2-az1_--x-s3). For information about bucket naming restrictions, see Directory bucket naming rules in the Amazon S3 User Guide

Required: Yes

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

Note

For directory buckets, this header is not supported in this API operation. If you specify this header, the request fails with the HTTP status code 501 Not Implemented.

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Examples

Sample Request for general purpose buckets

This request deletes the bucket named amzn-s3-demo-bucket.


DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 01 Mar  2006 12:00:00 GMT
Authorization: authorization string
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets


HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
x-amz-id-2: JuKZqmXuiwFeDQxhD7M8KtsKobSzWA1QEjLbTMTagkKdBX2z7Il/jGhDeJ3j6s80
x-amz-request-id: 32FE2CEB32F5EE25
Date: Wed, 01 Mar  2006 12:00:00 GMT
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3
         

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: