Fastest way of emptying an S3 bucket using boto3

You can use the below script to delete all objects (files) and keys (folders) in an S3 bucket using boto3.

Step 1: Install and configure boto3

https://cloudaffaire.com/how-to-install-python-boto3-sdk-for-aws/

https://cloudaffaire.com/how-to-configure-python-boto3-sdk-for-aws/

Step 2: Create a python script to delete all objects in an S3 bucket

## Create a python script to delete all objects in S3 bucket
cat << EOF > delete_objects.py
import argparse
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Delete all objects in an s3 bucket')
parser.add_argument('--bucket_name', type=str, help='The name of the bucket')
args = parser.parse_args()

def delete_objects(bucket_name):
    try:
        s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
        s3_bucket = s3.Bucket(bucket_name)
        bucket_versioning = s3.BucketVersioning(bucket_name)
        if bucket_versioning.status == 'Enabled':
            s3_bucket.object_versions.delete()
        else:
            s3_bucket.objects.all().delete()
            #s3_bucket.delete() ##if u want to delete the bucket as well
        print("all objects deleted!")
    except ClientError as e:
        print(e)

bucket_name = args.bucket_name
delete_objects(bucket_name)
EOF

## Create a python script to delete all objects in S3 bucket

cat << EOF > delete_objects.py

import argparse

import boto3

from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Delete all objects in an s3 bucket')

parser.add_argument('--bucket_name', type=str, help='The name of the bucket')

args = parser.parse_args()

def delete_objects(bucket_name):

try:

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

s3_bucket = s3.Bucket(bucket_name)

bucket_versioning = s3.BucketVersioning(bucket_name)

if bucket_versioning.status == 'Enabled':

s3_bucket.object_versions.delete()

else:

s3_bucket.objects.all().delete()

#s3_bucket.delete() ##if u want to delete the bucket as well

print("all objects deleted!")

except ClientError as e:

print(e)

bucket_name = args.bucket_name

delete_objects(bucket_name)

EOF

Step 3: Execute the script to delete all objects in an S3 bucket

## Delete all objects in an s3 bucket
python3 delete_object.py --bucket_name cloudaffaire

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