Deletes a bucket.

Note
  • Only the owner of a bucket has the permissions to delete the bucket.
  • To prevent unexpected deletion, Object Storage Service (OSS) does not allow you to delete a non-empty bucket.

Request syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Date: GMT Date
Authorization: SignatureValue

Request headers

This request contains only common request headers. For more information, see Common request headers.

Response headers

This request contains only common response headers. For more information, see Common response headers.

Examples

  • Sample requests for deleting an empty bucket 
    DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aliyun-sdk-python/2.6.0(Windows/7/AMD64;3.7.0)
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:19:04 GMT
authorization: OSS qn6qrrqxo2oawuk53otfjbyc:ceOEyZavKY4QcjoUWYSpYbJ3****
Content-Length: 0
    Sample responses 
    HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Server: AliyunOSS
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:19:04 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
x-oss-request-id: 5C3D9778CC1C2AEDF85B****
x-oss-server-time: 190
  • Sample requests for deleting a bucket that does not exist 
    DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aliyun-sdk-python/2.6.0(Windows/7/AMD64;3.7.0)
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:53:24 GMT
authorization: OSS qn6qrrqxo2oawuk53otfjbyc:ceOEyZavKY4QcjoUWYSpYbJ3****
Content-Length: 0
    Sample responses 
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: AliyunOSS
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:53:25 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 288
Connection: keep-alive
x-oss-request-id: 5C3D9175B6FC201293AD****

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Error>
  <Code>NoSuchBucket</Code>
  <Message>The specified bucket does not exist.</Message>
  <RequestId>5C3D9175B6FC201293AD****</RequestId>
  <HostId>test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com</HostId>
  <BucketName>test</BucketName>
</Error>
  • Sample requests for deleting a non-empty bucket 
    DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aliyun-sdk-python/2.6.0(Windows/7/AMD64;3.7.0)
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:35:06 GMT
authorization: OSS qn6qrrqxo2oawuk53otfjbyc:ceOEyZavKY4QcjoUWYSpYbJ3****
Content-Length: 0
    Sample responses 
    HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
Server: AliyunOSS
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:35:06 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 296
Connection: keep-alive
x-oss-request-id: 5C3D8D2A0ACA54D87B43****
x-oss-server-time: 16

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Error>
  <Code>BucketNotEmpty</Code>
  <Message>The bucket you tried to delete is not empty.</Message>
  <RequestId>5C3D8D2A0ACA54D87B43****</RequestId>
  <HostId>test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com</HostId>
  <BucketName>test</BucketName>
</Error>

SDK

You can use OSS SDKs for the following programming languages to call DeleteBucket:

Error codes

Error code HTTP status code Description
AccessDenied 403 Forbidden The error message returned because you do not have the permissions to delete the bucket. Only the bucket owner can delete the bucket.