How to Empty and Delete an S3 Bucket using the AWS CLI

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export bucketname='your-bucket-here'

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aws s3api delete-objects --bucket $bucketname --delete "$(aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket $bucketname --output=json --query='{Objects: *[].{Key:Key,VersionId:VersionId}}')";

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aws s3 rb s3://$bucketname

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#!/usr/bin/env python

BUCKET = 'your-bucket-here'

import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket(BUCKET)
bucket.object_versions.delete()

bucket.delete()