AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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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.

Permissions
  • General purpose bucket permissions - You must have the s3:DeleteBucket permission on the specified bucket in a policy.

  • Directory bucket permissions - You must have the s3express:DeleteBucket permission in an IAM identity-based policy instead of a bucket policy. Cross-account access to this API operation isn't supported. This operation can only be performed by the Amazon Web Services account that owns the resource. For more information about directory bucket policies and permissions, see Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) for S3 Express One Zone in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

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:

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to DeleteBucketAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.S3
Assembly: AWSSDK.S3.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public virtual DeleteBucketResponse DeleteBucket(
         DeleteBucketRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.S3.Model.DeleteBucketRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DeleteBucket service method.

Return Value


The response from the DeleteBucket service method, as returned by S3.

Examples

This example shows how to delete an bucket.

DeleteBucket sample


// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Construct request
DeleteBucketRequest request = new DeleteBucketRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket"
};

// Issue call
DeleteBucketResponse response = client.DeleteBucket(request);

                

This example shows how to delete all items in a bucket, and then delete the actual bucket.

DeleteBucket sample


// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// List and delete all objects
ListObjectsRequest listRequest = new ListObjectsRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket"
};

ListObjectsResponse listResponse;
do
{
    // Get a list of objects
    listResponse = client.ListObjects(listRequest);
    foreach (S3Object obj in listResponse.S3Objects)
    {
        // Delete each object
        client.DeleteObject(new DeleteObjectRequest
        {
            BucketName = "SampleBucket",
            Key = obj.Key
        });
    }

    // Set the marker property
    listRequest.Marker = listResponse.NextMarker;
} while (listResponse.IsTruncated);

// Construct DeleteBucket request
DeleteBucketRequest request = new DeleteBucketRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket"
};

// Issue call
DeleteBucketResponse response = client.DeleteBucket(request);

                

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5

See Also