How do I delete a versioned bucket in AWS S3 using the CLI?

I ran into the same limitation of the AWS CLI. I found the easiest solution to be to use Python and boto3:

#!/usr/bin/env python

BUCKET = 'your-bucket-here'

import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket(BUCKET)
bucket.object_versions.delete()

# if you want to delete the now-empty bucket as well, uncomment this line:
#bucket.delete()

A previous version of this answer used boto but that solution had performance issues with large numbers of keys as Chuckles pointed out.

Using boto3 it's even easier than with the proposed boto solution to delete all object versions in an S3 bucket:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('your-bucket-name')
bucket.object_versions.all().delete()

Works fine also for very large amounts of object versions, although it might take some time in that case.

This two bash lines are enough for me to enable the bucket deletion !

1: Delete objects aws s3api delete-objects --bucket ${buckettoempty} --delete "$(aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket ${buckettoempty} --query='{Objects: Versions[].{Key:Key,VersionId:VersionId}}')"

2: Delete markers aws s3api delete-objects --bucket ${buckettoempty} --delete "$(aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket ${buckettoempty} --query='{Objects: DeleteMarkers[].{Key:Key,VersionId:VersionId}}')"

You can delete all the objects in the versioned s3 bucket. But I don't know how to delete specific objects.

$ aws s3api delete-objects \
      --bucket <value> \
      --delete "$(aws s3api list-object-versions \
      --bucket <value> | \
      jq '{Objects: [.Versions[] | {Key:.Key, VersionId : .VersionId}], Quiet: false}')"

Alternatively without jq:

$ aws s3api delete-objects \
    --bucket ${bucket_name} \
    --delete "$(aws s3api list-object-versions \
    --bucket "${bucket_name}" \
    --output=json \
    --query='{Objects: Versions[].{Key:Key,VersionId:VersionId}}')"