How to Delete Large S3 Bucket on 3Engines Cloud[🔗](#how-to-delete-large-s3-bucket-on-brand-name "Permalink to this headline") =============================================================================================================================== **Introduction** Due to an *3Engines-cli* limitation, removing S3 buckets with more then 10 000 objects will fail when using the command: ``` 3Engines container delete --recursive <> ``` 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:$ ```