I have an S3 bucket that is 100% empty. Versioning was never enabled on the bucket. However, I still cannot remove the bucket. I have tried via the Console and the CLI tool. On the console it just says "Error" with no error message. From the cli and api it tells me: "An error occurred (BucketNotEmpty) when calling the DeleteBucket operation: The bucket you tried to delete is not empty". I have tried all of the following:
aws s3 rb s3://<bucket_name> --force
-> BucketNotEmpty
aws s3 rm s3://<bucket_name> --recursive
-> No output (because it's already empty)
aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket <bucket_name>
-> No output (because versioning was never enabled)
aws s3api list-multipart-uploads --bucket <bucket_name>
-> No outputs
aws s3api list-objects --delimiter=/ --prefix= --bucket <bucket_name>
-> No Output (because it's empty)
- It has no dependencies (it's not used by cloudfront or anything else that I'm aware of).
- The bucket has been empty for approximately 5 days.
- I was able to delete another very similar bucket with the same IAM user. Additionally my IAM user has Admin access.
aws s3api list-multipart-uploads
will show any abandoned multipart uploads that were never canceled. They time out... never, unless you configure a timeout in bucket lifecycle policy. Check this? – Michael - sqlbot