Do NOT use this procedure if you have files in your versioning enabled bucket that you want to keep.
The following procedure will permanently delete all files and versions in a bucket.
It was written to be run from Linux/Bash and it assume python3 is installed, and the boto3 package is installed
remove-all-versions.bash
#! /bin/bash
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
python3 remove-all-versions.py
Make the bash script executable
chmod 700 remove-all-versions.bash
remove-all-versions.py
# https://gist.github.com/weavenet/f40b09847ac17dd99d16
import boto3
session = boto3.Session()
s3 = session.resource(service_name=’s3′)
bucket = s3.Bucket(‘yourBucketName’)
bucket.object_versions.delete()
# bucket.delete()