I have a dozen of buckets that I would like to remove in AWS S3, all having a similar name containing bucket-to-remove and with some objects in it.
Using the UI is quite slow, is there a solution to remove all these buckets quickly using the CLI?
You could try this sample line to delete all at once. Remember that this is highly destructive, so I hope you know what you are doing:
for bucket in $(aws s3 ls | awk '{print $3}' | grep my-bucket-pattern); do aws s3 rb "s3://${bucket}" --force ; done
You are done with that. May take a while depending on the amount of buckets and their content.
I did this
aws s3api list-buckets \
--query 'Buckets[?starts_with(Name, `bucket-pattern `) == `true`].[Name]' \
--output text | xargs -I {} aws s3 rb s3://{} --force
Then update the bucket pattern as needed.
Be careful though, this is a pretty dangerous operation.