Comments on: How to delete an Amazon S3 bucket with lots of files in it http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/ Eric Cheng's Journal Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: William Wragg http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3212467 William Wragg Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:55:00 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-3212467 <p>Yep I second this. This is the way I do it, and is much quicker, as long as the instance is in the same region as the S3 bucket.</p> Yep I second this. This is the way I do it, and is much quicker, as long as the instance is in the same region as the S3 bucket.

]]> By: Tony http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3212283 Tony Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:49:00 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-3212283 <p>You can also use a Desktop S3 client ( http://www.dragondisk.com/ )</p> You can also use a Desktop S3 client ( http://www.dragondisk.com/ )

]]> By: s3nukem – Delete large Amazon S3 buckets | Robert LaThanh http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3205800 s3nukem – Delete large Amazon S3 buckets | Robert LaThanh Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:13:50 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-3205800 <p>[...] like many others, have needed to delete an S3 bucket with many items, but, as you may know, you first have to [...]</p> [...] like many others, have needed to delete an S3 bucket with many items, but, as you may know, you first have to [...]

]]> By: The Red Serpent http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3137715 The Red Serpent Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:56 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-3137715 <p><i>"S3 Browser is an app that fails to inspire confidence — it loads some number of keys at a time in bursts (1000, I think) and appends them to a single, scrolling list. I didn’t want to find out what might happen if I let it pull down the entire list of files."</i></p> <p>Well to be honest this is actually how amazon handle a LIST request, they don't send the files list at once but instead send it in chunks of 1000 per response :(</p> <p>Yes the multi-object delete is probably the most demanded request hopefully Amazon will realize that they can't keep ignoring their customers.</p> “S3 Browser is an app that fails to inspire confidence — it loads some number of keys at a time in bursts (1000, I think) and appends them to a single, scrolling list. I didn’t want to find out what might happen if I let it pull down the entire list of files.”

Well to be honest this is actually how amazon handle a LIST request, they don’t send the files list at once but instead send it in chunks of 1000 per response :(

Yes the multi-object delete is probably the most demanded request hopefully Amazon will realize that they can’t keep ignoring their customers.

]]> By: Managing Amazon S3 Online Storage with S3sync « Rforge http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3137193 Managing Amazon S3 Online Storage with S3sync « Rforge Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:37:40 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-3137193 <p>[...] Eric Cheng and other blogs appearing after a google search pointed out S3sync as a suitable tool to remove a non-empty bucket. [...]</p> [...] Eric Cheng and other blogs appearing after a google search pointed out S3sync as a suitable tool to remove a non-empty bucket. [...]

]]> By: AltJ http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2495162 AltJ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:25:24 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2008/07/14/how-to-delete-an-s3-bucket-with-lots-of-files-in-it/#comment-2495162 <p>You should fire up an EC2 instance and see how fast it is able to delete items. It wouldn't surprise me if it goes 10x faster than doing it over your DSL connection.</p> You should fire up an EC2 instance and see how fast it is able to delete items. It wouldn’t surprise me if it goes 10x faster than doing it over your DSL connection.

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