Deleting Amazon S3 bucket using Boto

delete_s3_bucket.py

import boto
from boto.s3.connection import OrdinaryCallingFormat
(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key) = ('<aws_access_key_id>', '<aws_secret_access_key>')

def deleteBucket(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, bname):
	s3 = boto.connect_s3(aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_access_key, calling_format=OrdinaryCallingFormat())
    print '# Permanently deleting bucket[%s]...' %bname
    bucket = s3.get_bucket(bname)
    bucketListResultSet = bucket.list()
    return bucket.delete_keys([key.name for key in bucketListResultSet])

deleteBucket(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, 'my-test-bucket-name')