Object Storage Service:Delete a bucket

Usage notes

• In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about OSS regions and endpoints, see Regions, endpoints and open ports.

• In this topic, access credentials are obtained from environment variables. For more information about how to configure access credentials, see Configure access credentials.

• In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Initialization.

• To delete a bucket, you must have the oss:DeleteBucket permission. For more information, see Attach a custom policy to a RAM user.

Prerequisites

• All objects in the bucket are deleted. You can manually delete objects from a bucket or have objects automatically deleted from a bucket based on a lifecycle rule.

  • If the bucket contains a small number of objects, we recommend that you manually delete them. For more information, see Delete objects.

  • To delete a large number of objects, we recommend that you configure lifecycle rules to delete the objects. For more information, see Lifecycle rules based on the last modified time.

  Important

  To delete a versioning-enabled bucket, make sure that all current and previous versions of objects in the bucket are deleted. For more information, see Configure versioning.

• Parts generated by multipart upload or resumable upload tasks in the bucket are deleted. For more information, see Delete parts.

• All LiveChannels in the bucket are deleted. For more information, see DeleteLiveChannel.

Examples

The following sample code shows how to delete a bucket named examplebucket:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2
from oss2.credentials import EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider

# Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are configured. 
auth = oss2.ProviderAuthV4(EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider())

# Specify the endpoint of the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
endpoint = "https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"

# Specify the ID of the region that maps to the endpoint. Example: cn-hangzhou. This parameter is required if you use the signature algorithm V4.
region = "cn-hangzhou"

# Specify the name of your bucket.
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, endpoint, "yourBucketName", region=region)

try:
    # Delete the bucket. 
    bucket.delete_bucket()
except oss2.exceptions.BucketNotEmpty:
    print('bucket is not empty.')
except oss2.exceptions.NoSuchBucket:
    print('bucket does not exist')
    

References

• For the complete sample code that is used to delete a bucket, visit GitHub.

• For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete a bucket, see DeleteBucket.