Why is the Administrator unable to delete the bucket, and what must be done to accomplish this task?
The bucket has MFA Delete enabled, and the Administrator must turn it off.
The bucket has versioning enabled, and the Administrator must permanently delete the objects’ delete markers.
The bucket is storing files in Amazon Glacier, and the Administrator must wait 3-5 hours for the files to delete.
The bucket has server-side encryption enabled, and the Administrator must run the aws s3 rb s3://my bucket — sse command.
Explanations:
MFA Delete is a security feature that requires multi-factor authentication for certain operations. It is unrelated to the inability to delete the bucket when no files are present.
Versioning can prevent deletion if there are delete markers or previous versions of objects. To delete the bucket, the administrator must ensure that all versions and delete markers are permanently deleted.
Files stored in Amazon Glacier might take longer to restore or delete, but the command would not fail because of Glacier storage. The issue here is versioning, not Glacier.
Server-side encryption does not prevent the deletion of an empty S3 bucket. The issue lies with versioning and not encryption settings.
If I had to guess, I’d say the answer is:
The bucket has versioning enabled, and the Administrator must permanently delete the objects’ delete markers.