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Object Storage Service:DeleteVectorBucket

Last Updated:Jun 02, 2026

Deletes a vector bucket.

Notes

  • Delete all vector indexes in the vector bucket before deleting it.

  • This operation is irreversible. Back up important data before you proceed.

Permissions

An Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions by default. RAM users and roles have no permissions by default and must be granted permissions through a RAM policy overview or a bucket policy.

API

Action

Description

DeleteVectorBucket

oss:DeleteVectorBucket

Deletes a vector bucket.

Request syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-123***456.cn-hangzhou-internal.oss-vectors.aliyuncs.com
Date: GMT Date
Authorization: SignatureValue

Request parameters

This operation uses only common request headers. Common request headers.

Response headers

This operation uses only common response headers. Common response headers.

Examples

Sample request

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: exampebucket-123***456.cn-hangzhou-internal.oss-vectors.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

SDK

SDKs that support this operation:

ossutil command-line interface

The corresponding ossutil command is delete-vector-bucket.

Error codes

Error code

HTTP status code

Description

AccessDenied

403

Permission to delete the vector bucket is denied. Only the bucket owner can delete the vector bucket.

InvalidVectorBucketName

400

The vector bucket name violates naming conventions.

VectorBucketNotEmpty

409

The vector bucket contains indexes and cannot be deleted.