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I recently had to delete a multi-TB S3 bucket and learned that S3 isn't great at deleting tons of files either. The AWS Console just hangs forever. I let it g
by tedmiston 9y ago
I recently had to delete a multi-TB S3 bucket and learned that S3 isn't great at deleting tons of files either. The AWS Console just hangs forever. I let it go for hours before finding another solution.
- anderiv 9y agoIt sounds like you’ve already resolved this, but for the benefit of any others that stumble upon this, my solution for deletion of a large bucket is to set a lifetime rule with a short TTL, after which the objects are deleted. Set that rule, and come back to a beautifully empty bucket 24 hours later, after Amazon’s gnomes have takes care of the issue for you.
- tedmiston 9y agoThat's what I ended up with as well.
- newsat13 9y agoYeah, S3 is not flawless but DO spaces had problems with just 5000 objects.