Deleting a bucket

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

1. See the description of the CLI command to delete a bucket:

   yc storage bucket delete --help
   

2. Get a list of buckets in the default folder:

   yc storage bucket list
   

   Result:

   +------------------+----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+---------------------+
   |       NAME       |      FOLDER ID       |  MAX SIZE   | DEFAULT STORAGE CLASS |     CREATED AT      |
   +------------------+----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+---------------------+
   | first-bucket     | b1gmit33ngp6******** | 53687091200 | STANDARD              | 2022-12-16 13:58:18 |
   +------------------+----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+---------------------+
   

3. Use the NAME column to save the name of the bucket you are going to delete.

4. Delete the bucket:

   yc storage bucket delete --name <bucket_name>
   

   Where --name is the name of the bucket to delete.

   Note

   It is more convenient to work with multiple buckets using CyberDuck and WinSCP file browsers or the AWS CLI.

If you do not have the AWS CLI yet, install and configure it.

In the terminal, run the aws s3api delete-bucket command:

aws s3api delete-bucket \
  --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net \
  --bucket <bucket_name>

Where:

• --bucket: Name of the bucket to delete.
• --endpoint-url: Object Storage endpoint.

You can also use the aws s3 rb command:

aws --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net \
  s3 rb s3://<bucket_name>

To simultaneously delete multiple buckets, run this command:

• Bash:

  aws s3api list-buckets \
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net \
    --query '<query>' \
    --output text | xargs -I {} aws s3api delete-bucket --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net --bucket {}
  

  Where --query is the query in JMESPath format.

  Example of the command for deleting all buckets whose names start with samplebucket:

  aws s3api list-buckets \
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net \
    --query 'Buckets[?starts_with(Name, `samplebucket`) == `true`].[Name]' \
    --output text | xargs -I {} aws s3api delete-bucket --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net --bucket {}
  

• PowerShell:

  Foreach($x in (aws s3api list-buckets `
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net `
    --query '<query>' `
    --output text)) `
    {aws s3api delete-bucket `
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net `
    --bucket $x}
  

  Where --query is the query in JMESPath format.

  Example of the command for deleting all buckets whose names start with samplebucket:

  Foreach($x in (aws s3api list-buckets `
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net `
    --query 'Buckets[?starts_with(Name, `samplebucket`) == `true`].[Name]' `
    --output text)) `
    {aws s3api delete-bucket `
    --endpoint-url=https://storage.yandexcloud.net `
    --bucket $x}
  

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a bucket created with Terraform:

1. Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment describing the bucket.

   Example bucket description in a Terraform configuration

   ...
   resource "yandex_storage_bucket" "test" {
     access_key = "YCAJEX9Aw2ge********-w-lJ"
     secret_key = "YCONxG7rSdz********_NRy5VbKzKlqZ********"
     bucket     = "<bucket_name>"
   }
   ...
   

2. In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.

3. Check the configuration using this command:

   terraform validate
   

   If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:

   Success! The configuration is valid.
   

4. Run this command:

   terraform plan
   

   The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will point them out.

5. Apply the configuration changes:

   terraform apply
   

6. Confirm the changes: type yes into the terminal and press Enter.

   You can check the changes in the management console.

To delete a bucket, use the delete REST API method for the Bucket resource, the BucketService/Delete gRPC API call, or the deleteBucket S3 API method.