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Object Storage Service:DeleteBucket

Last Updated:Feb 19, 2025

Deletes a bucket.

Important
  • 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

All headers in a DescribeRegions request are common request headers. For more information, see Common request headers.

Response headers

All headers in the response to a DescribeRegions request are common response headers. For more information, see Common response headers.

Examples

  • Sample request 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 response

    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 request 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 response

    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>
      <EC>0015-00000101</EC>
    </Error>
  • Sample request 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 response

    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 has objects. Please delete them first.</Message>
      <RequestId>5C3D8D2A0ACA54D87B43****</RequestId>
      <HostId>test.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com</HostId>
      <BucketName>test</BucketName>
      <EC>0015-00000301</EC>
    </Error>

SDKs

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

ossutil

For information about the ossutil command that corresponds to the DeleteBucket operation, see delete-bucket.

Error codes

Error code

HTTP status code

Description

AccessDenied

403 Forbidden

You do not have the permissions to delete the bucket. Only the bucket owner can delete the bucket.