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The DELETE request operation deletes the bucket named in the URI. All objects in the bucket must be deleted before the bucket itself can be deleted.
Only the owner of a bucket can delete it, regardless of the bucket's access control policy.
DELETE / HTTP/1.1 Host:destinationBucket.s3.amazonaws.com Date:dateAuthorization:signature
This operation uses standard request headers.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content x-amz-id-2: id x-amz-request-id: request_id Date: date Connection: close Server: AmazonS3
There operation uses standard response elements.
There are no special errors for this operation. For information about general Amazon S3 errors, see List of Error Codes.
This example deletes the bucket named "quotes".
DELETE / HTTP/1.1 Host: quotes.s3.amazonaws.com Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT Authorization: AWS 15B4D3461F177624206A:xQE0diMbLRepdf3YB+FIEXAMPLE=
Amazon S3 returns a response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content x-amz-id-2: JuKZqmXuiwFeDQxhD7M8KtsKobSzWA1QEjLbTMTagkKdBX2z7Il/jGhDeJ3j6s80 x-amz-request-id: 32FE2CEB32F5EE25 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT Connection: close Server: AmazonS3
