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Deleting Object Versions
A DELETE request has the following use cases:
When versioning is enabled, a simple
DELETEcannot permanently delete an object.Instead, Amazon S3 inserts a delete marker in the bucket and that becomes the latest version of the object with a new ID. When you try to
GETan object whose latest version is a delete marker, Amazon S3 behaves as though the object has been deleted (even though it has not been erased) and returns a 404 error.To permanently delete versioned objects, you must use
DELETE Object versionId.
The following figure shows that a simple DELETE does not actually
remove the specified object. Instead, Amazon S3 inserts a delete marker.
The following figure shows that deleting a specified object version permanently removes that object.
To a delete a specific version of an object
In a
DELETErequest specify a version ID.
Example Deleting a Specific Version
The following example shows how to delete version UIORUnfnd89493jJFJ of photo.gif.
DELETE /photo.gif?versionId=UIORUnfnd89493jJFJ HTTP/1.1 Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT Authorization: AWS 15B4D3461F177624206A:xQE0diMbLRepdf3YB+FIEXAMPLE= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 0
