I cannot delete my bucket

Reviewed on July 03, 2025

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization

Problem

I cannot delete my Scaleway Object Storage bucket.

Solution

• Make sure there is no bucket policy that prevents you from deleting the bucket.

• If there is a bucket policy, make sure that it explicitly allows you to perform the desired action.

Going further

• Refer to the documentation on how to delete a bucket for more information.

• If you did not manage to identify the error and solve it by yourself, open a support ticket, and provide as many details as possible, along with the necessary information below:

  • Object Storage Endpoint (e.g. s3.fr-par.scw.cloud)
  • Bucket name
  • Object name (if the request concerns an object)
  • Request type (PUT, GET, etc.)
  • HTTP status code
  • Date and time (timestamp)
  • User-agent (SDK, client, console, etc.)
  • Transaction ID (if possible)
  • Log / trace of the error (if possible)