Imagine for a second you’re a Unix user, familiar with the rm command.
Imagine you are using windows for the first time and you want to delete a directory, so you find an answer on Serverfault that explains that to do so you need to spin up a COM object that marks the directory for deletion, then the next day comes back and deletes it.
You might be inclined to say ‘that seems overly complicated’.
The original answerer is confused though. ‘It’s trivial, stop being silly. Can you think of a simpler way to delete a directory?’
Do you see now why I thought the ‘non triviality’ of deleting an S3 bucket was perhaps relevant in a discussion on an article about why S3 is both simpler and more complex than a file system?
And why your approach might not actually be making the case for it being as simple as you think?
Right click, move to recycle bin, wait for the progress bar to finish. Except the progress bar takes a day or so.
This is only needed if you have a huge (100 million+) bucket, at which point you should be experienced with s3, otherwise you can just click the big, clear and obvious “empty bucket” button on the console.
