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Jeff Shall
Jeff Shall

Reputation: 381

Do deleted Amazon S3 Bucket names become available for re-use

If I delete a Bucket from my Amazon S3 account, does the name become available for use elsewhere? I setup a bucket named "WXY234" in my S3 account, but now I'd like to have that bucket name in a different account. If I delete it from my account, will the name be released into the wild so I can use it elsewhere? If so, how long does it take for the released name to become available?

Upvotes: 25

Views: 17293

Answers (3)

Vishesh Kumar Singh
Vishesh Kumar Singh

Reputation: 303

It took me around 2 hours, for creating the same bucket in a different account and in a different region. But if we want to create in the same account and same region, it will get created at the same time instantly, since it keeps a backup for that account for some time.

Upvotes: 0

Vivek
Vivek

Reputation: 99

It takes about an hour if you are switching the region with same bucket name.

Upvotes: 9

Akshay Mathur
Akshay Mathur

Reputation: 560

From Amazon S3 documentation Bucket Restrictions and Limitations:

Bucket ownership is not transferable; however, if a bucket is empty, you can delete it. After a bucket is deleted, the name becomes available to reuse, but the name might not be available for you to reuse for various reasons. For example, some other account could create a bucket with that name. Note, too, that it might take some time before the name can be reused. So if you want to use the same bucket name, don't delete the bucket.

Upvotes: 17

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