Call DeleteBucket to delete a bucket.
Only the bucket owner has permission to delete the bucket.
To prevent accidental deletion, Object Storage Service (OSS) does not allow you to delete a non-empty bucket.
Permissions
By default, an Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions. RAM users or RAM roles under an Alibaba Cloud account do not have any permissions by default. The Alibaba Cloud account or account administrator must grant operation permissions through RAM Policy or Bucket Policy.
API | Action | Description |
DeleteBucket |
| Deletes a 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: OSS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=LTAI********************/20250417/cn-hangzhou/oss/aliyun_v4_request,Signature=a7c3554c729d71929e0b84489addee6b2e8d5cb48595adfc51868c299c0c218e 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: OSS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=LTAI********************/20250417/cn-hangzhou/oss/aliyun_v4_request,AdditionalHeaders=content-length,Signature=a7c3554c729d71929e0b84489addee6b2e8d5cb48595adfc51868c299c0c218e 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: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:35:06 GMT authorization: OSS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=LTAI********************/20250417/cn-hangzhou/oss/aliyun_v4_request,AdditionalHeaders=content-length,Signature=a7c3554c729d71929e0b84489addee6b2e8d5cb48595adfc51868c299c0c218e 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>
SDK
You can use OSS SDKs for the following programming languages to call the DeleteBucket operation:
Command-line tool ossutil
For the ossutil command that corresponds to the DeleteBucket operation, see delete-bucket.
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. |