The ONTAP S3 bucket needs to be empty before it can be deleted.

Delete the objects of the S3 bucket by the AWS CLI on the client side:

1. The S3 Browser GUI can be used to delete objects, although this may time out if the bucket contains many objects
2. For buckets containing a large number of objects, the following can be run on the AWS CLI:
   aws --endpoint-url  http://ip/path_to_endpoint s3 rm s3://bucketname --recursive
   Example: aws --endpoint-url  http://<strong>10.x.x.x</strong><span> </span>s3 rm s3://<strong>OntapS3bucket</strong> --recursive
3. If the bucket still contains objects after running the rm command, refer to the following: Objects in ONTAP S3 bucket not seen in S3 Browser