Deleting buckets

This page shows you how to delete Cloud Storage buckets. For an overview of buckets, read the Key Terms.

To delete a bucket:

Console

  1. Open the Cloud Storage browser in the Google Cloud Console.
    Open the Cloud Storage browser

  2. Select the checkbox of the bucket you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete.

  4. In the overlay window that appears, confirm you want to delete the bucket and its contents by clicking Delete.

See Troubleshooting for how to get detailed error information about failed operations in the Cloud Storage browser.

gsutil

Use the gsutil rm command with the -r flag:

gsutil rm -r gs://[BUCKET_NAME]

Where [BUCKET_NAME] is the name of the bucket to delete. For example, my-bucket.

The response looks like the following example:

Removing gs://[BUCKET_NAME]/...

Code samples

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation. 

namespace gcs = google::cloud::storage;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name) {
  google::cloud::Status status = client.DeleteBucket(bucket_name);

  if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());
  std::cout << "The bucket " << bucket_name << " was deleted successfully.\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation. 

private void DeleteBucket(string bucketName)
{
    var storage = StorageClient.Create();
    storage.DeleteBucket(bucketName);
    Console.WriteLine($"Deleted {bucketName}.");
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation. 

ctx := context.Background()

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
defer cancel()
if err := client.Bucket(bucketName).Delete(ctx); err != nil {
	return err
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation. 

import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class DeleteBucket {
  public static void deleteBucket(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of the bucket to delete
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    bucket.delete();

    System.out.println("Bucket " + bucket.getName() + " was deleted");
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following line before running the sample.
 */
// const bucketName = 'Name of a bucket, e.g. my-bucket';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function deleteBucket() {
  // Deletes the bucket
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).delete();
  console.log(`Bucket ${bucketName} deleted.`);
}

deleteBucket().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Delete a Cloud Storage Bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName the name of the bucket to delete.
 *
 * @return void
 */
function delete_bucket($bucketName)
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $bucket->delete();
    printf('Bucket deleted: %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucket->name());
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation. 

from google.cloud import storage


def delete_bucket(bucket_name):
    """Deletes a bucket. The bucket must be empty."""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.delete()

    print("Bucket {} deleted".format(bucket.name))

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation. 

# bucket_name = "Name of your Google Cloud Storage bucket to delete"

require "google/cloud/storage"

storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name

bucket.delete

puts "Deleted bucket: #{bucket.name}"

REST APIs

JSON API

  1. Get an authorization access token from the OAuth 2.0 Playground. Configure the playground to use your own OAuth credentials.

  2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a DELETE Bucket request:

    curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
  "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/[BUCKET_NAME]"

    Where:

    • [OAUTH2_TOKEN] is the access token you generated in Step 1.
    • [BUCKET_NAME] is the name of the bucket to delete. For example, my-bucket.

If successful, the response contains a 204 status code.

XML API

  1. Get an authorization access token from the OAuth 2.0 Playground. Configure the playground to use your own OAuth credentials.

  2. Use cURL to call the XML API with a DELETE Bucket request:

    curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
  "https://storage.googleapis.com/[BUCKET_NAME]"

    Where:

    • [OAUTH2_TOKEN] is the access token you generated in Step 1.
    • [BUCKET_NAME] is the name of the bucket to delete. For example, my-bucket.

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