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Delete - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Container for the objects to delete.

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Objects

The object to delete.

Note

Directory buckets - For directory buckets, an object that's composed entirely of whitespace characters is not supported by the DeleteObjects API operation. The request will receive a 400 Bad Request error and none of the objects in the request will be deleted.

Type: Array of ObjectIdentifier data types

Required: Yes

Quiet

Element to enable quiet mode for the request. When you add this element, you must set its value to true.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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