hemachandsai / s3-bulk-delete

Empties an S3 bucket@3500 Objects per second

S3 Bulk Delete helps to empty s3 buckets
It is much faster than delete through aws-cli which is sequential

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What is this project for

• Currently we can use aws cli to empty an s3 bucket. But is very slow because of the sequential nature
• s3-bulk-delete uses list-objects(5,500 objects per second) and delete-objects(3500 objects per second per prefix) api using aws sdk to delete at much faster rate respecting aws s3 rate limit rules

Demo

How to use

• Download the latest binary from the releases section depending on the target platform
• Execute the download binary with desired flags

usage: ./s3-bulk-delete -aws-region {{region}} -bucket {{{bucketname}}

  -aws-region string
        AWS Region in which bucket exists. (Required)
  -bucket string
        Bucket name to be deleted. (Required)

Examples

s3-bulk-delete-windows.exe -aws-region us-east-1 -bucket test
./s3-bulk-delete-linux -aws-region us-east-1 -bucket test-bucket
./s3-bulk-delete-darwin -aws-region us-east-1 -bucket test-bucket

Future plans

• Migrate the project to use go modules

How to contribute

Feel free to raise a PR with new features or fixing existing bugs

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (Apache2.0).