AWS S3 Bucket Deletion CLI

This CLI application is designed to interact with AWS S3 service for the purpose of deleting an existing S3 bucket. It provides an interactive way to delete a bucket and its contents securely, with optional prompt for confirmation to help prevent accidental deletion of important data.

When executed, this CLI performs the following operations:

1. Detect whether the bucket has Object Versioning enabled and disable it if it does.
2. Lists all the objects in the given bucket.
3. Deletes all the objects retrieved from the bucket.
4. After ensuring that all objects have been deleted, it then proceeds to delete the bucket.

Usage

To run the CLI:

delete-bucket [OPTIONS]

Options:

• -h, --help Prints help information
• -f, --force Do not prompt for approval.
• -p, --profile The AWS profile to use
• -r, --region The AWS region to use
• -b, --buckets Buckets to delete.

Speed comparison

Deleting 10K files in a single bucket on c6i.2xlarge machine:

• delete-bucket - 6.234s
• aws s3 rm s3://bucket-name --recursive AWS Docs - 25.086s

That's fast! 💨

Installation

There are two main methods for installing this tool:

Method 1: Download binaries

You can download the pre-compiled binaries directly from the GitHub releases page. Choose the correct binary depending on your operating system.

Visit the releases page to download the appropriate binary. For example (make sure to use the latest version):

wget https://github.com/aws-cli-tools/delete-bucket/releases/download/v0.1.5/delete-bucket-v0.1.5-x86_64-linux.tar.xz
tar -xf delete-bucket-v0.1.5-x86_64-linux.tar.xz

Method 2: Using Homebrew (for macOS users)

If you are a macOS user and have Homebrew installed, you can install this tool using the following commands:

brew tap aws-cli-tools/aws-cli-tools
brew install delete-bucket

Running locally

• You can always use cargo to manage the build and tests.
• We use just as a command running.
• Use just gate to run all checks locally.

Contributing

See our CONTRIBUTION page