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**Introduction**

Due to an *openstack-cli* limitation, removing S3 buckets with more then 10 000 objects will fail when using the command:

```
openstack container delete --recursive <<bucket_name>>

```

showing the following error error:

```
Conflict (HTTP 409) (Request-ID: tx00000000000001bb5e8e5-006135c488-35bc5d520-dias_default) clean_up DeleteContainer: Conflict (HTTP 409) (Request-ID:)

```

**Recommended solution**

To delete a large S3 bucket we can use **s3cmd**.

In order to acquire access to your Object Storage buckets via s3cmd, first you have to generate your own EC2 credentials with the following tutorial: [How to generate and manage EC2 credentials on 3Engines Cloud](../cloud/How-to-generate-ec2-credentials-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md)

After that, you have to configure s3cmd as explained in the following article: [How to access private object storage using S3cmd or boto3 on 3Engines Cloud](How-to-access-private-object-storage-using-S3cmd-or-boto3-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md)

After this, you should be able to list and access your Object Storage.

List your buckets with the command:

```
eouser@vm01:$ s3cmd ls
2022-02-02 22:22  s3://large-bucket

```

Now you’re able to delete your large bucket with the command presented below, where **-r** means recursive removal.

```
s3cmd rb -r s3://large-bucket

```

The bucket itself and all the files inside will be removed.

```
WARNING: Bucket is not empty. Removing all the objects from it first. This may take some time...
delete: 's3://large-bucket/example_file.jpg'
delete: 's3://large-bucket/example_file.txt'
delete: 's3://large-bucket/example_file.png'
...
...
...
Bucket 's3://large-bucket/' removed

```

Your large bucket has been successfully removed and the list of buckets is empty.

```
eouser@vm01:$ s3cmd ls
eouser@vm01:$

```