<story><title>Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money</title><url>https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>You can use lifecycle policies to delete it for free, but its best to confirm it via support. Not saying this is the great way, maybe its intentionally hidden, but at least there is a way.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;59170391&amp;#x2F;s3-lifecycle-expiration-do-object-expiry-deletes-cost-money-for-sia-objects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;59170391&amp;#x2F;s3-lifecycle-ex...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treesknees</author><text>Yes, this was mentioned as the preferred method in the article. As the article states, it&amp;#x27;s free for objects in the standard storage tier but will incur a Transition cost for other tiers. It&amp;#x27;s not hidden, but it&amp;#x27;s not exactly advertised as a way to empty a bucket.</text></comment>
<story><title>Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money</title><url>https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>You can use lifecycle policies to delete it for free, but its best to confirm it via support. Not saying this is the great way, maybe its intentionally hidden, but at least there is a way.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;59170391&amp;#x2F;s3-lifecycle-expiration-do-object-expiry-deletes-cost-money-for-sia-objects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;59170391&amp;#x2F;s3-lifecycle-ex...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s some caveats to that...&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;If you create an S3 Lifecycle expiration rule that causes objects that have been in S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA storage for less than 30 days to expire, you are charged for 30 days&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It goes on to say 90 days for Glacier and 180 days for Glacier Deep.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;AmazonS3&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;userguide&amp;#x2F;lifecycle-expire-general-considerations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;AmazonS3&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;userguide&amp;#x2F;lifecy...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>